11.   The driver was killed but a passenger in the car escaped, Russian reports said.

12.   The driver was killed but the son, whose age was not given, survived.

13.   A local police officer on the scene said three officers were killed but a local posecutor said only one was shot dead.

14.   Over the past year a number of businessmen and prominent social figures have been killed but the murderers have not been brought to justice.

15.   The bus driver was among those killed but the truck driver survived and told police he thinks he lost control after suffering a punctured tyre.

16.   The driver of the vehicle was killed but his son survived, the official paper said, without stating the number of people injured in the crash on Saturday.