RUSSIAN TOURISTS DIED IN BUS ACCIDENT IN INDIA

The bus fell into the river, the victims of the tragic accident began, according to various estimates, from 2 to 13 of our compatriots

In India, killing travelers from Russia. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday, June 10, at the state Uttarathand: bus, which drove tourists fell into the river Bhagirathi - a tributary of the Ganges. 

Confirmed the deaths of our citizens in the Russian Embassy in India. Now specify how many people were killed in the accident. First, Indian media reported on thirteen or fourteen dead Russians. But soon there was other information:

- According to local police, killing two citizens of Russia, one missing - said "KP"spokeswoman Irina Rostourism Shegolkova. - Twelve passengers are injured, they were taken to the hospital. Now the police and diplomats involved in establishing their identity and citizenship. Perhaps not all of them Russians. It is also unknown how many people were traveling in the ill-fated bus. 

Embassy staff in touch with the police and local authorities and will do everything necessary to help compatriots assured "RIA Novosti" embassy spokesman Tatyana Kopylova. 

The state authorities sent a helicopter to the scene of the accident to take the wounded to the hospital in Dehradun. 

Details and reasons for PE is not yet known.

It is possible that travelers come to India on their own, not flights. The fact that the state does not apply to Uttarathand massive beach resorts like Goa or Kerala, where they were going for ayurvedic treatments.

It is a mountainous area north of Delhi, in the Himalayas. Here are many Hindu shrines - Kedarnath, Haridwar and Rishikesh, which is often called the unofficial capital of yoga. Russian tour operators organizing tours to the region, confirmed the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia Maya Lomidze. 

If people are going to these parts, it is not customary for the rest, and yoga from famous gurus, seminars and practices with Russian instructors of yoga, visiting ashrams, mountain climbing (in the state more than 70 four-thousander vertex).  

The bus that crashed was directed to Gangotri - the village at a height of more than three thousand meters, the famous temple of the goddess Ganga Devi. It is believed that here is the source of the holy river Ganges.

Gangotri - she of the stops on the pilgrimage route Himalaya "Char Dham" (four holy places).Also here start trekking to the mountain lakes and glaciers and climbing routes.