Six people were killed in an accident on a highway in the Penza region.

Six people were killed and another injured in a traffic accident in the Mokshansky district of the Penza region. This was reported on August 1 in the regional State Traffic Inspectorate (GAI).

According to preliminary data, two passenger cars, a Datsun on—DO and a Chevrolet Epica, collided at about 5:00 a.m. Moscow time on the 571st km of the federal highway M5 Ural.

"As a result of a traffic accident, six people were killed, and one person was hospitalized with injuries of varying severity," the department's Telegram channel said.

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