Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 23 Nov 2021, 12:31 am Print
Bulgaria Bus Crash Representational image by Hans Eiskonen on Unsplash
Sofia, Bulgaria (JEN): At least 46 people, including children, have been killed after a tourist bus crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday morning, authorities said.
According to local media reports, the bus, which was reportedly registered in Northern Macedonia, crashed on Struma motorway around 02:00 local time (00:00 GMT) near the village of Bosnek, south-west of the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
At least 45 people, including 12 children, died as a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria, officials said https://t.co/g4od7my1Ce pic.twitter.com/sgXF73fCvQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 23, 2021
Local authorities said seven people were injured in the deadly accident and they have been shifted to a hospital.
Bulgarian news agency Novinite reported representatives from Macedonia’s embassy in Bulgaria visited the injured at a hospital.
#Bulgarie 🇧🇬 - Au moins 46 personnes tuées dans un accident d'autobus de nuit sur une autoroute au sud de la capitale #Sofia. Une douzaine d'enfants étaient dans le bus alors que 7 passagers ont été sauvés et emmenés à l'hôpital, selon le ministère de l'Intérieur. #Bulgaria pic.twitter.com/bUUWA4PDUW
— ⓃⒺⓌⓈ—ⒾⓃⓉ·Û°•â—🌠(@NewsInt_) November 23, 2021
North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani told news agencies that the coach party was returning to the capital Skopje from a weekend holiday trip to the Turkish city of Istanbul.
#Bulgaria- 46 people dead after a passenger bus crashes and catches fire near Bosnek, Pernik
— Mete SohtaoÄŸlu (@metesohtaoglu) November 23, 2021
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Bulgarian ministry official Nikolay Nikolov told local BTV television that children were among the victims.
BTV reported quoting Bulgarian Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov that most of the victims' bodies had been "completely burnt out".
BREAKING: At least 45 people killed, seven others injured following bus accident on Struma highway in southwestern Bulgaria pic.twitter.com/wpmvaAnstl
— The African Voice (@teddyeugene) November 23, 2021
After "sealing off" the accident site, authorities have started investigation into the cause of the crash and fire, while local reports said the coach may have hit a curb or a guardrail.
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