"Out of 60 people on board of the Russian bus five were seriously injured, but their lives are not in danger," Vladimir Golovanov, the head of the consulate department of the Russian Embassy in Sweden, said adding that "two more people received light injuries.
Golovanov said that the slippery icy road caused the traffic accident. The Swedish bus with 15 passengers on board, he said, was leaving a bus stop, when it collided with the approaching from behind bus with Russian tourists.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the local police said that in all 18 people were injured in the road accident with 14 of them being citizens of Russia.
The accident involving Russian tourists abroad is the second in two days as on Wednesday seven Russian tourists were injured in the popular Mediterranean Sea resort of Kemer in Turkey, when their bus crashed into a mountain after the driver lost control in poor weather conditions.
