The bus plunged 80 meters (263 feet) down a ravine near the Red Sea resort city of Eilat on Tuesday afternoon. There were 49 Russian nationals and 2 Israelis on board. (VIDEO)
"Thirty were killed and 21 injured. We received these figures from the municipal authorities of Eilat," Anastasiya Fyodorova said.
She had also confirmed earlier in the day that that the people involved in the crash were from Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg.
"The bus which crashed in Israel was transporting charter passengers from a St. Petersburg flight," she said.
A spokeswoman for the Russian Union of Tourism Industry said that all the passengers were representatives of St. Petersburg travel agencies.
"The trip was organized by Israel for Russian travel agents so that they could find out where they were sending Russian tourists. They were all staff members from five St. Petersburg travel agencies," Irina Tyurina said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to the families and relatives of those killed in the accident, and has also ordered the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Embassy in Israel to render any assistance necessary to those affected.
The Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations is to provide two overnight planes to take the relatives of those injured and killed in the accident as well as medical equipment and personnel to Israel.
