MOSCOW, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed when a car collided with a truck in Crimea, Russia, local emergency services said Wednesday.

"When a truck collided with a passenger car, five people died. The circumstances of the crash are being clarified," local emergency services were quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying.

The accident occurred on a highway 18 km from the Crimean capital Simferopol.