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Road accident with minibus taxi claims 14 lives in Ukraine

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced via a post on his Telegram channel that a fatal road accident occurred in north-western Ukraine, resulting in the death of 14 individuals, one of whom was a six-year-old child, DPA reports.

A serious road accident in north-western Ukraine has claimed the lives of 14 people, including a child aged six, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported on his Telegram channel on Saturday.

A petrol truck had collided with a minibus taxi in the Rivne region, he said. Police and emergency services were at the scene, Klymenko posted.

Doctors were battling to save the life of the sole survivor, a badly injured woman, he said.

The minibus was almost totally destroyed in the collision, as photos provided by the emergency services showed.

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