Three Moldovans were admitted to a hospital in Cernauti town of Ukraine as a result of a traffic accident that occurred on July 17. These travelled by a bus with Moldovan license numbers that ran on the Aachen (Germany) – Chisinau route. The bus collided head-on with a minibus that went out of control. The minibus driver, who was a citizen of Ukraine, died, IPN reports.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, the Moldovans hurt in the accident are out of danger. Other passengers of the bus, who are also Moldovan citizens, were transported to the Republic of Moldova.

The Ministry activated the crisis cell for coordinating the actions to provide assistance to the Moldovan citizens. For details, relatives can call on +380683842016 – emergency number of the Embassy of Moldova in Kiev - or on +37322 788722 – emergency number of the Ministry’s crisis cell.