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Car accident claims Sochi mayor's daughter

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Published 22 July, 2007, 11:51

The five-year old daughter of Viktor Kolodyazhny, the mayor of Sochi, has died in a St. Petersburg's hospital. Valeriya Kolodyazhnaya fell out of a horse-drawn carriage and sustained severe injuries when the mayor and his family were sight-seeing.

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There was a collision of the carriage the family was travelling in and a car on the Dvortsovaya embankment on Friday.

The car driver has been questioned by police in the course of the investigation.

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