One Ukrainian citizen was killed and two injured in a road accident in Belarus, reads a posting on the Web site of the Interior Ministry of Belarus.

The accident occurred near Nekhachevo in Ivatsevichy district.

A Ukrainian citizen, born in 1979, was driving a Mercedes minibus and crashed into a Neoplan bus that was driven by a Minsk resident, born in 1981.

As a result of the accident, a young man (born in 1989) was killed and two more passengers (born in 1987 and 1990 respectively) were hospitalized. All of the passengers are Ukrainian citizens. The driver of the Neoplan bus received medical aid and did not need hospitalization.