Russian tourist back home
A Russian emergencies ministry Il-76 plane with 21 injured Russian tourists from Tuesday’s bus crash in the southwest of Turkey landed at the Domodedovo airport in Moscow.
On early Tuesday morning, a bus with 39 Russian tourists and two Turks en route from the resort of Alanya to the town of Pamukkale veered off the road and plunged 15 meters into the Aksu River killing 15 people, including 13 Russians, and injuring the rest.
“All injured people, evacuated to Moscow, are in stable condition,” Igor Yakirevich, a doctor with the Russian Emergencies Ministry, said.
President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered Russia’s Emergencies Ministry to help the Russian tourists injured in the crash, and to repatriate the bodies of those killed.
Valery Shabanov, a senior doctor with Russia’s health ministry, said that initially it was planned to take 22 injured tourists to Moscow, but the condition of one woman, hospitalized in Turkey, deteriorated at the last moment and doctors decided against transporting her for the time being.
He added that besides the woman two more Russians remain in Turkish hospitals as they are in extremely critical condition, while two Russian tourists from the bus crash returned to Russia from Turkey on their own.
According to preliminary investigation results, the bus crashed after the driver suffered a heart failure.
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