Human error likely cause of deadly Bulgaria bus crash, investigators say

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SOFIA: Bulgarian investigators said on Thursday (Nov 25) that human error was the most likely cause of a bus crash that killed more than 40 people. The bus was carrying tourists,

The bus was carrying tourists, including children, from North Macedonia returning from a weekend trip to Turkey. It crashed in flames on a highway in western Bulgaria before daybreak on Tuesday.

"The autopsies indicate that all victims have died mainly from suffocation following the fire, and not from injuries from the crash or from injuries from a blast," he said. The bus has hit a traffic barrier on the right side, ripping it off and catching fire from the friction, then swerved to the left before stopping in the traffic barriers that separate the highway lanes, investigators said.

 

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