Tag: bus
Macedonia 27.11.21 | 12:09

Besa bus disaster: Two of the survivors will be discharged from hospital

Two of the seven survivors of the devastating Besa bus accident will be discharged today from the Pirogov hospital in Sofia. Bulgarian doctors operated on the survivors, who had burns, smoke inhalation and fractures, sustained during the fire and their frantic escape from the bus. One of those that are...
Balkans 26.11.21 | 23:07

Kosovo: Three killed when attacker opened fire on a bus carrying young people

Two youngsters and a bus driver were killed in Kosovo when an armed attacker opened fire on a village bus. The incident happened this afternoon, near Decani, after a man was kicked out of the bus for harassing a group of women. The bus was carrying mostly students and young people.
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 20:44

Man from Skopje faces hate speech charge over his bus disaster Facebook comment

A man from Skopje was interrogated by the police today for an ugly comment he wrote on Facebook with regard to the deadly bus accident in Bulgaria on Tuesday morning. The man was questioned about a potential “hate speech crime”, and the police said that he excused his comment by saying he...
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 20:32

Inspectors finally entered the Besa bus company, and found that the two drivers were not working there

Inspectors were finally able to enter the premises of the Besa Tours company, which operated the bus that crashed in Bulgaria on Tuesday morning with the loss of 45 lives. Earlier today the inspectors were not allowed to enter the office, to shock and dismay of the public. Currently, the office is cordoned...
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 18:13

Mickoski: The bus disaster is result of pervasive crime, corruption and institutional incompetence

Speaking about the deadly bus disaster in Bulgaria, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that it was the end result of pervasive corruption and criminal conduct in the country and the failure of state institutions to perform basic checks and inspections. We avoided public comments over the three...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 20:51

Interior Minister Spasovski again denies reports that the Besa bus was used to smuggle gasoline

Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski again said that the reports about gas and pyrotechnics being smuggled in the ill fated bus that burnt down in Bulgaria with the loss of at least 44 lives are speculations. Such comments harm the investigation instead of helping. According to my information, there is...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 18:44

Passenger was saved by a luggage mix-up

A young passenger who went to Istanbul with the Besa company, and was supposed to board the ill fated bus that crashed and burned down south of Sofia, was moved to a different bus due to luggage mix-up. Xhafer Dolek had a seat on the bus that burnt down, but the hotel staff mistakenly put his bags in...
Macedonia 25.11.21 | 17:10

Two of the victims of the bus disaster were police officers

Two of the victims of the bus disaster in Bulgaria are police officers, reports Alsat TV. One of them is Enis Ramanoski, deputy commander of the Debar police station, and Sade Mustafoski, an officer at the Blato border crossing with Albania. Their families reported their deaths on social media accounts.
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 23:09

Company that owned the ill-fated bus denies reports that it was smuggling cheap Turkish fuel

“Besa Trans”, the tour agency that operated the bus that crashed and burnt down in Bulgaria on Tuesday morning with the loss of 45 lives, claims that it was not secretly transporting cheap diesel oil from Turkey or pyrotechnics for the coming New Year celebrations. These two allegations are...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 20:20

Company responsible for the bus tragedy in Bulgaria stripped of its license

The Transportation Ministry announced that it stripped the Besa Trans BTB company from Skopje of its license to conduct international bus trips. This is the company that operated the bus that burnt down after an accident in Bulgaria on Tuesday morning, leading to the deaths of 45 passengers. The formal...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 19:42

Bus disaster: Bulgarian prosecutors and investigators arrive in Macedonia, their main task is to help identify the bodies

A group of prosecutors and investigators from Bulgaria arrived to Macedonia today, mainly to begin collecting DNA samples from families who lost loved ones in the bus disaster on Tuesday morning. 45 bodies were found in the burnt wreck of the BESA Tours bus and many will have to be identified using DNA...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 18:13

Last thing I remember is trying to break the bus window with my hands, youngest survivor tells Alsat TV

Alsat TV reporters in Sofia spoke to the youngest of the seven survivors of the deadly bus accident that happened on the night between Monday and Tuesday. 16 year old Zulejha Jasarovska spoke briefly with the TV crew, and told them that she has little memory of the accident. I was sleeping. When I awoke,...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 21:28

Petty gas smuggling is a possible cause of the deadly bus disaster

More and more Bulgarian media outlets are reporting eyewitnesses saying that a possible reason why the BESA Tours burnt down so quickly is that it was carrying extra fuel. The bus was returning from a long weekend tour to Istanbul, and Turkey currently has far lower gas prices than Macedonia or Bulgaria. The...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 21:20

Complete disregard for safety rules even on the day of the biggest traffic disaster in decades

A Bulgarian TV crew came to Studenicani, a village south of Skopje, where many of the passengers who died in the bus disaster this morning lived. But even on such a day, the crew recorded a local bus driver speaking on the phone, while driving, the coronavirus mask underneath his chin. Бугарска...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 21:10

US Secretary Blinken expresses condolences to Macedonia and Bulgaria

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken joined in the expressions of condolences after the bus disaster that affected Macedonia and Bulgaria, as well as the fire in the retirement home in Bulgaria. The State Department and the American people extend our deep condolences to the people of (North) Macedonia...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 18:13

Tragedy strikes Macedonia – 45 killed in a bus accident in Bulgaria

Macedonia awoke today to reports about a major tragedy – the death of 45 passengers in an accident in Bulgaria. The bus owned by the Skopje based BESA Tours company was returning from a shopping and tourist trip to Istanbul. Macedonia is honoring the Day of the Albanian Alphabet, and some of the...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 17:43

The bus speedometer is completely destroyed

Bulgarian authorities say that the speedometer on board of the Macedonian BESA Tours bus that was destroyed in an accident overnight with the loss of 45 lives, was completely destroyed. This means it won’t be possible to determine the speed of the bus and how quickly was the driver going overall...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 17:40

Bulgarian GERB party strongly denounces claims that the state of the highway contributed to the disaster

Officials of the Bulgarian GERB party strongly condemned comments from the caretaker Government regarding the devastating bus crash overnight involving a Macedonian bus in which 45 people were killed. Miniser Violeta Komitova implied that the state of the Struma highway contributed to the disaster. The...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 16:44

Names of the seven survivors of the bus accident released to the public

While the names of the victims of the disastrous bus accident in Bulgaria still haven’t been released, the Foreign Ministry published the names of the survivors. Seven people in total got out of the wreck of the bus alive – three of them apparently from the same family, and others, judging...
Macedonia 23.11.21 | 08:59

Zaev: Horrific tragedy, victims are mostly young people probably on way back from excursion

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...
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