Two persons died and eight more were injured in a road accident in the Bryansk region in the small hours on Saturday, a spokesman for the Russian interior ministry told Itar-Tass. According to the spokesman, the accident took place at about 06:00 a.m. Moscow time at the 361st kilometer of the Ukraine federal highway. According to preliminary information, an Opel car with two Tajik nationals inside ran onto the oncoming lane to ram a minibus. “The Opel driver and passenger died instantly, the minibus driver and seven passengers were hospitalized,” the spokesman said. An investigation is underway.