Thick fog causes pile-up – eleven dead in Bulgaria

In dense fog, rear-end collisions with many deaths and dozens of vehicles occurred on the highway to the Black Sea in Bulgaria. There are eleven dead and 48 seriously injured, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said during a televised press conference with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Varna.

Von der Leyen, who was visiting Bulgaria, expressed her condolences. Because of the large-scale rescue operation using military aircraft and helicopters, von der Leyen's program in the EU country was cut.

A government meeting planned for the afternoon in Sofia is to be cancelled. The accident site near Yambol in eastern Bulgaria is around 300 kilometers from Sofia.