{"id":1047906,"date":"2021-11-23T10:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1047906"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:58:56","slug":"tourist-bus-crashes-burns-killing-at-least-45-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tourist-bus-crashes-burns-killing-at-least-45-in-bulgaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Bus Crashes, Burns, Killing at Least 45 in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftourist-bus-crashes-burns-killing-at-least-45-in-bulgaria%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1047906&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236746273-e1637668357640-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) \u2013 A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, authorities and local media said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened around 2 a.m. and there were children among the victims, authorities said. Seven people were taken to hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The cause of the crash was not immediately confirmed, but it appeared that the bus hit a highway guard rail, crashed and caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was one of four traveling together. Officials said an investigation will be launched.<\/p>\n<p>Photos taken shortly after the crash showed the bus engulfed in flames with plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the scene.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov told reporters at the crash site that he had \u201cnever in my life seen something more horrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe picture is horrifying, the people who were on the bus are turned to charcoal,\u201d Rashkov said. \u201cIt is impossible to say how many they were. There were four buses that traveled together, and it is possible that passengers changed buses during the stops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bulgarian Caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev, who also visited the site of the crash, told reporters it was \u201ca huge tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take this opportunity to send my condolences to the relatives of the victims,\u201d Yanev said. \u201cLet\u00b4s hope we learn lessons from this tragic incident and we can prevent such incidents in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bulgarian news agency Novinite said representatives from North Macedonia\u00b4s embassy visited a hospital where some of the victims were taken.<\/p>\n<p>North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told Bulgarian television channel bTV that he had spoken to one of the bus survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the passengers told me that he was asleep and woke up from an explosion,\u201d Zaev told bTV, adding that the authorities will gather information that is \u201cimportant for the families of the dead and the survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Bulgaria, an EU nation of 7 million, had the second-highest road fatality rate in the 27-nation bloc with 89 people killed per million population, according to European Commission data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) \u2013 A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria early Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}