Bulgaria: at least 10 dead in motorway pile-up
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sowetan
At least ten people have died and 27 were injured in an accident involving around fifty vehicles on a foggy motorway in south-eastern Bulgaria. According to Yambol regional governor Georgi Chalakov, cited by the BTA news agency, people were still trapped in their cars.
At least ten people were killed on Tuesday in a pile-up involving around fifty vehicles on a fog-covered motorway in south-eastern Bulgaria. According to the governor of the Yambol region, Georgi Chalakov, cited by the Bulgarian news agency BTA, cars and lorries piled up on both sides of the carriageway. Images from local media show many vehicles overturned, crushed or driven off the road. Source: Reuters.
At least 27 injured people have been taken to regional hospitals, according to BTA. Chief Commissioner Todor Mishinev, of the Yambol regional directorate of the Ministry of the Interior, told Nova TV that some people were still trapped in their vehicles. Rescue operations are the priority; criminal police investigations will follow.
