Bulgaria Motorway Pileup Kills Over 10, Dozens of Vehicles Hit in Fog
(MENAFN) More than 10 people died Tuesday morning in two chain-reaction crashes on a motorway near Yambol, in southeastern Bulgaria, according to a national news agency citing a regional official.
Roughly 50 cars and trucks were caught up in the collisions, Georgi Chalakov, governor of Yambol Region, said. Reduced visibility caused by fog is being blamed. The motorway remains shut in both directions.
Rescue crews, Interior Ministry personnel and soldiers are working at the scene to assist victims, a government information service said. The injured have been taken to hospitals in the nearby cities of Sliven, Yambol and Burgas.
Prime Minister Rumen Radev has dispatched a government aircraft to Burgas to move the wounded to hospitals in the capital, Sofia. Spartan military transport planes are also ferrying patients to Sofia, the government service said.
Roughly 50 cars and trucks were caught up in the collisions, Georgi Chalakov, governor of Yambol Region, said. Reduced visibility caused by fog is being blamed. The motorway remains shut in both directions.
Rescue crews, Interior Ministry personnel and soldiers are working at the scene to assist victims, a government information service said. The injured have been taken to hospitals in the nearby cities of Sliven, Yambol and Burgas.
Prime Minister Rumen Radev has dispatched a government aircraft to Burgas to move the wounded to hospitals in the capital, Sofia. Spartan military transport planes are also ferrying patients to Sofia, the government service said.
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