Russian diplomat got in car accident in Karaganda oblast
On July 21 at 2 p.m. a 45-year-old colonel, military attache assistant of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kazakhstan, got in an accident in Karaganda oblast and received multiple injuries.
Karaganda. July 23. Kazakhstan Today - An employee of the Russian Embassy in Kazakhstan got in car accident in Karaganda oblast. Now he is in intensive care, Kazakhstan Today reports.
On July 21 at 2 p.m. a 45-year-old colonel, military attache assistant of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kazakhstan, got in an accident in Karaganda oblast and received multiple injuries.
According to the press service of the Traffic Police of Karaganda oblast, the embassy employee was driving a car from Karaganda to Astana.
"Crossing Osakarovsky district, he lost control and the car drove into the oncoming lane and flew from the railway bridge into a ditch," the press service of the Traffic Police specified.
He was taken to the hospital of Osakarovka village with broken ribs and a concussion of the brain.
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