The bus crash took place early today in Russia's central Tatarstan Republic. Footage from the scene showed the burnt- out shell of the bus. Russian investigators said a criminal case has been opened.
In other deadly road accidents, four people died early Sunday after a car hit a tree near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, and two teenagers were killed late Saturday when a truck plowed into a bus stop in the western Russian city of Bryansk.