Tag: bus accident.
Macedonia 17.10.22 | 09:58

Poor maintenance of the “Struma” highway is one of the reasons for the death of the 45 Macedonians in the bus accident

For the tragic bus accident in Bulgaria in which 45 Macedonian citizens died, including 13 children, not only the bus driver is to blame but also the state agency Road Infrastructure. The expert report on the pre-investigation procedure for the tragic bus accident, when a Macedonian bus caught fire on...
Balkans 30.08.22 | 10:02

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General Office asks Macedonian counterparts for further questioning of survivors and relatives of victims in Struma bus crash

Spokesperson of Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General Office, Siika Mileva, said the preliminary investigation into the bus crash on the Struma highway that killed 46 people has stopped. According to MIA’s Sofia correspondent, Mileva told BNT the reason for this is because Bulgarian prosecutors have asked...
Balkans 17.12.21 | 20:33

Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor rewards investigators, prosecutors, and medical examiners for Besa Trans bus accident investigation

Bulgaria’s Chief Prosecutor, Ivan Geshev, presented diplomas, certificates of appreciation and plaques to prosecutors, investigators and medical examiners for their high professionalism and flawless performance in office in 2021. According to MIA’s correspondent in Sofia, among them is a...
Macedonia 08.12.21 | 11:01

It’s been three weeks and the government still has no answers, no responsibility for the bus accident in which 45 people lost their lives

It’s been three weeks since the fatal bus accident in which 45 people tragically lost their lives, and the government of SDSM and DUI has no answer as to how it is possible for a bus without a license to leave the border 140 times, said  VMRO-DPMNE on Wednesday. The Ministry of Interior and Customs...
Macedonia 05.12.21 | 14:16

Stoilkovski: There have been no answers about the fatal bus for 12 days

For 12 days, there has been no answer, no responsibility, no reaction to the tragedy in which 45 people were killed as a result of crime and corruption, VMRO-DPMNE spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski said at Sunday’s press conference. For 12 days there is no answer how is it possible for the fatal bus...
Macedonia 02.12.21 | 21:42

Cause of fire in bus carrying Macedonian tourists on “Struma” highway known

The cause of the fire and the location of its original source in the bus with Macedonian tourists returning from Istanbul, which happened on the Struma highway, are known, prosecutor Biser Mihailov and investigator Marian Marinov, who are working on clearing the tragedy, told BTV. According to MIA’s...
Macedonia 29.11.21 | 20:44

Bodies of bus accident victims to be flown to Skopje on Thursday

The bodies of the Macedonian nationals who died in the tragic bus accident in Bulgaria will be handed over to their families on Thursday or Friday at the latest, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani said on Monday. The Bulgarian Government accepted our request for the transfer from Sofia to Skopje...
Macedonia 29.11.21 | 20:28

I thought many times why wasn’t I on the bus, didn’t die too, Bekim Hadziu, “Besa Trans” owner tells BNT

The owner of the “Besa Trans” travel agency, Bekim Hadziu, spoke for the first time in public after the horrific bus accident on the Struma highway in Bulgaria, in which 45 people were. Hadziu said the bus had undergone a technical inspection before the trip to Turkey and was fully operational....
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 13:05

Emergency inspection not possible after company closed its offices

The State Transport Inspectorate yesterday couldn’t carry out an emergency inspection, despite making attempts, of the Besa Trans company, whose bus caught fire in Bulgaria killing 45 passengers. The company’s offices were closed and no one was answering the phone, its director Rufat Huseini told...
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 12:27

EC: If Besa Trans bus didn’t have license it shouldn’t have been allowed to cross border

According to European Union regulations, if the Besa Trans bus involved in the accident in Bulgaria, which killed 45 Macedonian nationals, wasn’t licensed to carry passengers, it shouldn’t have been allowed to cross an EU border, in this case Bulgaria’s. EU legislation stipulates a series of...
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 12:12

VMRO-DPMNE demands Spasovski and Bocvarski’s resignations over fatal bus accident

VMRO-DPMNE said that systemic corruption led to an accident which claimed 44 lives, demanding and responsibility and Spasovski and Bocvarski’s resignations. Spasovski and Bocvarski should resign immediately, 3 days after the accident, it is not known who died and who survived. Besa Trans’s...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 15:59

Who is the mysterious passenger who was saved from the fatal bus and immediately disappeared?

Bulgarian media, as well as the son of one of the drivers, say that there was another passenger who was saved from the fatal bus but disappeared during the night. It is even claimed that the passenger is of Arab descent and that no one knows where he is now. If we put together the total number of victims...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 13:49

Stankov: Exact number of victims not known until DNA analysis is completed

Forensic Medicine Institute (FMI) director Aleksandar Stankov has told MIA that 44 bodies and body remains were found at the site of the bus accident that would be cross-checked with the DNA analysis. The exact number of victims not known until DNA analysis completed. 44 autopsies have been performed,...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 13:44

Sarafov: Victims died of suffocation, human error underlying cause of accident

Autopsy results show that all victims died of suffocation, not the crash itself. This means they were alive when the bus had caught fire. Final analysis will give a final assessment of the causes of the accident, but the underlying root cause at this point is human error, Bulgarian Deputy Chief Prosecutor...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 10:31

Bulgaria’s chief prosecutors says tragic bus accident wasn’t terrorist act, and there was no exposition and no fuel jerry cans

Bulgarian State Public Prosecutor Ivan Gesev informed at a press conference that the statements of two of the surviving passengers who were awake at the time of the accident completely coincide. They were questioned separately and their statements were identical. Therefore, we fully accept their testimonies...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 09:39

Pirogov hospital: Injured passengers are in stable condition, still not known when they can be discharged from hospital

The victims in the bus accident on the Struma highway, who are treated at the Pirogov hospital, are in stable condition. There is no danger to their lives, doctors from the Sofia-based hospital told BTV. Two people were operated on yesterday, who are also in good general condition. The injured who were...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 15:32

No one is responsible, and people die – authorities are passing the buck over the unlicensed bus that caught fire in Bulgaria

According to the director of the State Transport Inspectorate Rufat Huseini, the lack of a license for international passenger transport for the bus of the travel agency “Besa Trans”, which caught fire yesterday and claimed 45 lives, is not the cause of the accident. In an interview with...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 15:09

Bulgarian road traffic experts: Bus had braking trajectory, driver didn’t fall asleep

Erroneous or faded horizontal signs, no road signals, poor condition of the reflecting traffic signals, possible fuel smuggling or human error are some of the possible causes for yesterday’s bus accident at the Struma motorway in Bulgaria, road safety experts told the Bulgarian National Television...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 14:49

Students’ march to pay tribute to children killed in Bulgaria bus accident

Elementary school students from the Skopje Municipality of Chair held Wednesday a march in the capital as a show of respect to their fellow students, who were killed in yesterday’s bus accident in Bulgaria. At least 45 passengers, including 12 children, were killed on the Struma highway. Unofficially,...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 11:37

Did the bus driver carry the canisters with fuel for the needs of “Besa Tours” or for personal gain?

How much did the 45 lost lives of Macedonian citizens, who died in the tragic bus accident on the “Struma” highway, forty kilometers south of Sofia on the road to Blagoevgrad, cost? Whether the difference of about 50,035 cents per liter of diesel proved fatal for these people is perhaps the...
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