One person was killed in a massive road accident in St. Petersburg.

A massive road accident involving four cars occurred on the Ring Road in St. Petersburg, resulting in the death of a man. This was announced on June 22 by a source of Izvestia.

According to him, the cars collided on the 41st km of the outer ring of the ring road.

"One of the cars caught fire. Traffic is blocked in three lanes, a traffic jam has formed on the highway," the source said.

The details of the incident are being clarified.

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The day before, three people died in a car fire accident in the Irkutsk region. In addition, two more were injured. It was clarified that the incident occurred on the 90th km of the federal highway R-258 Baikal.