Dnipro Opera concertmaster Tomchuk dies in car-bus crash

Concertmaster of Dnipropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Iryna Tomchuk was killed in a road accident.

Censor.NET reports citing Yevhen Hendin, an external adviser to the Dnipro City mayor.

"She is the concertmaster, the first cello of our opera and ballet theater and The Seasons chamber orchestra Iryna Tomchuk. She was on her way to work with the husband (plays the French horn in the same theater): they have a house or a dacha not far from this Byk. For some reason, I do not know why, they pulled over. And a bus with the children (a dance group), taking them to a performance, emerged. The funeral ceremony will be held in the theater on Tuesday," he wrote.

Earlier, Dec. 3, at the 185th kilometer of Znamianka-Luhansk-Izvaryne Highway (20 kilometers from Dnipro City), the driver of a MAN bus, carrying children from Kropyvnytskyi to Dnipro, lost control and collided with a Skoda standing on the roadside. After that, the bus slid into a ditch and overturned. The incident killed a woman and injured 19 children.