Seven people were killed and two injured when a minibus collided with a truck near Tobolsk in Tyumen region on the evening of October 21, RIA Novosti reported.
The crash occurred after 9 p.m. Moscow time on the Tyumen–Khanty-Mansiysk highway. The minibus, traveling from Sibay to Surgut, crashed into a truck in a line of vehicles stopped at a traffic light near a roadworks site.

The minibus caught fire after the collision and burned out completely. Four men and three women among the nine people inside were killed.
The 33-year-old minibus driver and a 57-year-old passenger were taken to Tobolsk District Hospital No. 3. The regional health department said one of the injured people was in moderate condition and the other in serious condition; the driver was seriously injured.