Hungary’s senior consul to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has deceased on Tuesday following his involvement in a serious accident on Friday, 25 December.

Speaking after the accident, a spokesman for the health ministry of the Republic of Bashkortostan, said that Pál Fábián was being treated in a local hospital and in a critical condition. Several specialist medics were brought in from the city of Ufa to assist in his treatment, the Hungarian state news agency MTI said.

However, attempts to save Mr. Fábián’s life failed and he died in hospital in the town of Mesyagutovo on Tuesday, according to information confirmed by Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations. The Hungarian diplomat suffered the fatal crash in Bashkortostan when his Volvo collided with a freight vehicle.

He was not the first Hungarian diplomat to die in a road accident while stationed in Russia. In 2009, Pál Szűcs, leader of the embassy’s commercial section, was killed when his vehicle hit another car en route from Moscow to the Belorussian capital Minsk.

via index.hu

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