Three persons died on Thursday morning in a road accident in Mirnoe village of Anenii Noi district.

The driver of a Volvo car and the two passengers on this died on the spot.

Contacted by IPN for details, press officer of the Anenii Noi Police Inspectorate Mariana Didenco said that the victims are two men and a woman.

An extrication team of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations is working at the scene.

The Inspectorate said the call to the 112 Service was made at 9:20am. The car skidded off the road and ran into a tree. As a result of the impact, the three persons became trapped in the vehicle.

According to the police, the accident victims are the 50-year-old driver who was from the municipality of Chisinau, a female passenger aged 41 and a male passenger aged 35, both from Anenii Noi district. Preliminary examinations showed the driver lost control of the vehicle after not adjusting the speed to the weather conditions and crashed this violently into a roadside tree.