Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who left for Sofia overnight together with Health Minister Venko Filipce and Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, told MIA that one of the survivors has said a loud explosion was heard prior to the accident that claimed at least 45 lives at a motorway in Bulgaria.

I am in contact with the Prime Minister Stefan Janev who has already visited the people. I had the opportunity to talk to one of the survivors. He explained that they were sleeping on the bus when a loud explosion was heard. They managed to break one of the windows and save several people. Unfortunately, others didn’t succeeded. It is a terrible tragedy because most of the victims are young people – 12 children are under 18 years old, and the others are young people around 20-30 years old. Most of them are our citizens, but there are also Serbian citizens among them, Zaev told MIA.

They were probably on their way back from excursion, but the details will be further determined.