At least 17 people have been killed on the outskirts of Moscow after a truck carrying concrete crashed into a passenger bus this afternoon.
A further 22 people have been hospitalised, according to Russian’s Emergency Services Ministry.
The incident occurred when the truck hit the side of the bus near Oznobishino, a suburb in the about 25 miles south of Moscow’s city centre.
![The wreckage of a bus is seen as members of the emergency services and police work at the scene of a collision between the bus and a truck outside Moscow July 13, 2013. Seventeen people were killed and many more injured on Saturday when a truck plowed into a bus in a Moscow suburb, breaking it in two, Russia’s emergency ministry said. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin](https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/Z4GA7UFN6L43UL7GC37TNY4YRQ.jpg?auth=c31324fbb360889631e2ef90af88e3abacc22f3425ca317b1da59a72ec8fa1bb&width=800&height=450)
The drivers of both vehicles are among those taken to hospital, Russian news reports said.