In Russia, 18 people were killed in separate road accidents today. At least 14 people were killed after a bus caught fire following a nighttime collision with a truck in central Tatarstan Republic. Footage from the scene showed the burnt- out shell of the bus. Russian investigators said, a criminal case has been opened. In another road accident, four people died early this morning after a car hit a tree near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow.