Four more survivors from the bus fire crash were discharged from hospital

Four more people injured in the bus fire accident on Struma Motorway were discharged today, Pirogov reported on November 29.

Medical teams from the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Serbia picked up the patients to take them home.

One of the survivors in the tragic bus crash remains in Sofia for observation at the Pirogov Clinic of Neurosurgery. He is recovering smoothly and is already moving after undergoing two successful operations - on the lower leg and spine.

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45 people, including 12 children, died after a bus crashed and caught fire on Struma motorway in western Bulgaria in the early hours on November 23.

The bus was registered in the Republic of North Macedonia and was carrying tourists, who were returning from a trip in Turkey to Skopje.

Seven people managed to break the windows of the bus and escape. They were taken to Pirogov emergency hospital in Sofia with injuries and burns..

The bus had been travelling as part of a convoy of four buses and had stopped off at a petrol station near Sofia shortly before the accident. The other buses, which were a few minutes ahead, returned to the Republic North Macedonia safely.