Bulgaria, 46 dead in the crash of a bus south of Sofia
It rose to 46 the death toll from a bus accident occurred along the Struma highway in Bulgaria. The vehicle, with license plate from North Macedonia, it first crashed and then caught fire near the village of Bosnek.
The burnt bus was carrying 52 passengers, including 12 minors. Only seven people who are admitted to Pirogov hospital survived and are not in danger of life despite the severe burns reported. The youngest patient is 17 years old.
The bodies, including those of some minors, are unrecognizable, which will make identification difficult. According to the first data available to the Bulgarian authorities, four buses from a North Macedonia tourism company entered the country through the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing with the intention of traveling to Istanbul, Turkey.
Shortly before the tragic accident, which took place around at 3 am local time (2 o’clock in Italy) bus drivers stopped to rest at a service station. The Road Infrastructure Agency announced that traffic on the motorway in the stretch from the Daskalovo road junction “to the Dolna Dikanja road junction has been limited in both directions.
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