Three persons were killed and five others were injured on Ruisi road of Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze highway. “Mercedes-Benz” vehicle, carrying eight people, was fired after going off the road.

A middle-aged woman and two miners, all of them the citizens of Armenia, died in the accident. The injured people have been hospitalized. The Ministry of Internal Affairs told InterPressNews that an investigation has been launched under paragraph 8, Article 276 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, involving violation of traffic safety rules and operation of the vehicle.