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MOSCOW - Twenty-five pilgrims who were injured in a road accident near Chernihiv, Ukraine, have been taken to hospitals in Moscow and Pskov, the Health Ministry press service reports.

“On Saturday night 14 victims of the road accident in Chernihiv were
flown by a plane of the Emergency Situations’ Ministry to Moscow where
they were received by teams of the center of disaster medicine of the
Health Ministry,” a newsletter received by Interfax on Sunday, July 8, says.

All of them were taken to leading federal medical institutions, it says.

In addition, the second plane carrying 11 accident victims landed in Pskov at 2:30 a.m.

“All of them were offered to be hospitalized at the regional
hospital. As a result four were taken to the department of neurosurgery,
four – to the trauma section, and three – to thoracic surgery. At the
time of hospitalization all of them were in condition of medium
gravity,” the newsletter says.