After the fatal train accident: Caretaker PM Glavchev dismissed Biser Minchev from the post of Deputy Minister of Transport

Caretaker Prime Minister, Dimitar Glavchev, on January 15 dismissed Biser Minchev from the post of Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications.

• BDZ train left at a red traffic light, claims private carrier - owner of one of the crashed trains

Minchev, whose portfolio at the ministry is rail transport, was dismissed from his post at the suggestion of caretaker Minister of Transport and Communications, Krasimira Stoyanova, over today's tragic accident.

• Two killed and six injured in a serious accident between two freight trains near Sofia

Two people died and six were injured after two freight trains collided head-on between Kremikovtzi and Svetrachenne stations near Lokorsko.

Two of the injured were transported to the Military Medical Academy, one was admitted to St Anna Hospital.

The most seriously injured are in ISUL (one injured aged 59) and two people in Pirogov emergency hospital.