At least 45 people, including 12 children, have died after a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed on a highway in western Bulgaria, officials say.
Television footage showed the bus charred and gutted by fire in the middle of the highway.Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov said:"People are clustered inside and are burned to ash."
"The picture is terrifying, terrifying. I have never seen anything like that before," he told reporters at the site. Bulgarian investigative service chief Borislav Sarafov said four buses from a North Macedonian travel agency had entered Bulgaria late on Monday from Turkey. "Human mistake by the driver or a technical malfunction are the two initial versions for the accident," he said.North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said the coach party was returning to Skopje from a weekend holiday trip to Istanbul.
"I am terrified. This is such a huge tragedy," North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told private television channel BTV.
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