DUSHANBE, October 16, 2013 Asia-Plus -- New details of the Russian fatal bus crash have emerged.

“Tajik national, Dilshod Sattorov, 35, was at the wheel of Toyota minibus that was involved in a fatal traffic accident that took place in the southern Russian oblast of Samara in late Sunday (October 13),” Ibrohim Ahmadov, a spokesman of Tajik migration service agency’s office in Russia, told Asia-Plus in an interview.

According to him, the minibus, which was carrying 11 Uzbek nationals, one Tajik (Ahkomuddin Khudoinazarov, 43) and one Azerbaijani in addition to the driver, went into oncoming traffic and collided with Mercedes truck.

All thirteen passengers were killed in the collision and the driver was the only person in the minivan to have survived the fiery wreck.