At least 45 people, including 12 children, died after a bus crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria. The bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourist returning from Turkey crashed and burst into flames on a motorway at about 02:00 local time (00:00 GMT) near the village of Bosnek, south-west of the capital Sofia. Seven people were taken to hospitatl who were injured in the bus that register in North Macedonia.
Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani told that the tourists had been returning to the capital Skopje from a weekend holiday trip to the Turkish city of Istanbul.