12 people died and 22 were injured in a car accident on in Russia’s Khanty-Mansi autonomous region on 4 December.

According to Emergency Ministry of Uzbekistan, among those killed was a citizen of Uzbekistan — Zulfiya Ergasheva (born in 2001). Her twin sister Gavhar (also born in 2001) is in critical condition at Khanty-Mansiysk neurosurgical clinic.

The Emergency Ministry has arranged delivery of the victim’s body, accompanied by father Sarvar Ergashev, in Tashkent on 7 December.

The ministry, jointly with other state bodies, said it was taking all measures to assist the family of the deceased.