Forensic Medicine Institute (FMI) director AleksandarStankov 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.
“We cannot determine the exact number of the victims until the DNA analysis is completed. There were 44...
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said Thursday in a phone call with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement OlivérVárhelyithat Sofia expects dialogue with North Macedonia to produce concrete results.
President Radev told Commissioner Várhelyi that Bulgaria is open for dialogue by putting forward clear questions, while expecting answers and real action...
Two Macedonian customs officers have been suspended, and their boss will be fined, after the internal control of the Customs Administration determined that on November 18, the customs officers did not electronically record the exit of the vehicle with license plates SK0284BA on the carrier "Besa Trans" from Skopje,...
Authorities in N. Macedonia are collecting samples for DNA analyses from relatives of the victims in the bus accident. The thesis on the fuel tanks is speculation, Bulgarian prosecutors are working on the investigation, Chief State Prosecutor LjubomirJoveski told BTV.
Joveski says the prosecutor’s office will be activated after the...
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...
Bulgaria’s prosecutor SiikaMileva could not answer a question at a news conference on Thursday whether the mysterious passenger was a certain ShadiNauf al-Saleh, a 36-year-old Arab national of the United Arab Emirates whose name was seen by relatives of survivors on a list they received at the Sofia hospital.
This...
The head of the Employment Center at the Employment Agency misused over 10 thousand euros of official funds for three years, which she spent for her own needs.
As explained by the Ministry of Interior, the defendant committed the crime in the capacity of an official from the position of...
The Customs Administration is conducting an internal investigation over who let the "Besa Trans" bus leave the country without a license at the Deve Bair border crossing.
This comes after the Ministry of Transport and Communications announced on Tuesday that the carrier did not register this vehicle that burned completely,...
There is no change in the position of Bulgaria on start of EU accession negotiations with North Macedonia at Tuesday’s meeting of the General Affairs Council (GAC), according to BNR, MIA’s Sofia correspondent reports.
The Bulgarian veto remains although, according to a diplomatic source, Bulgaria’s sharp position which has been...