Saturday, May 18, 2024
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...
The passengers injured in Tuesday’s bus accident are in a stable condition that is not life-threatening. Pirogov hospital staff said the patients are properly cared for and different medical specialists are monitoring their condition. All necessary urgent treatment has been performed, said Health Minister after being briefed by the...
We do not know when the bus was purchased and registered. We also do not know why they did not apply for a license. According to the Law on Road Transport, the Customs Administration at the border crossings has the authority and must return the carrier if it does...
The bill for the unannounced withdrawal of electricity from the transmission system reached MEPSO. Macedonia needs to pay 18.5 million euros to the European Energy Network for electricity drawn from July to October, reports Alsat TV. Of all this amount, the most expensive was the electricity for October, i.e. 16.5...
I hope the investigation will be thorough in determining the real cause for the tragedy, and all required measures will be undertaken if a human factor is behind it. The ministries of interior and transport, who set forth their views at yesterday’s press conference, are the most competent when...