A child injured in an accident with seven dead people will be transported by sanitation to Novosibirsk

A child who was injured in an accident with seven dead people will be transported by helicopter to Novosibirsk. This was reported on July 16 in the press service of the regional Ministry of Health.

"The child's condition is of moderate severity. He is being prepared for evacuation to Novosibirsk by a sanitation helicopter," TASS quoted Health Minister Rostislav Zablotsky as saying.

It is specified that five people died at the scene before the ambulance arrived. Three injured people were taken to the Krasnozersk hospital in serious condition, but two adults died in the operating room.

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The accident occurred earlier in the day on the 290th km of the federal highway K17 in the Novosibirsk region. As a result of the incident, seven people died and another was injured.