At least 45 people, including 12 children, died as a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed on a highway in western Bulgaria hours before daybreak on Tuesday, officials said.
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Seven people who leapt from the burning bus were rushed to a hospital in capital Sofia and were in stable condition, hospital staff said. The Bulgarian Interior Ministry said it was the most deadly bus accident in the country's history.
"The scene is terrifying, terrifying. I have never seen anything like that before," Interior Minister Boyko Rashkov told reporters.
The cause of the accident was unclear but the bus appeared to have hit a highway barrier either before or after it caught fire, Bulgarian officials said.
