A woman, who had suffered a severe brain damage in the Armenian bus crash in Tula Oblast (province) in Russia, died on Saturday at dawn, in the Uzlovaya town medical center.

The Embassy of Armenia in Moscow informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that she was Hripsime Sirekanyan, 68.

The Deputy Minister of Health of Armenia, Gagik Mirijanyan, informed from Tula that the woman had had cardiac arrest five times during the three days following the accident, but she could not be saved after the sixth cardiac arrest on Saturday.

As a result, the death toll in this tragic accident has reached nine.

Eight people were initially killed and several dozen others were injured as a passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, crashed on Tuesday at around 2:10am local time, in Tula Oblast in Russia.

Russia has opened a criminal case into this bus crash, and on charges of “breaking the road traffic and vehicle operation rules.” A similar case has been filed in Armenia, too.

According to preliminary data, the bus driver, Garnik Harutyunyan, had fallen asleep at the steering wheel.

Harutyunyan has been taken into custody for two months.