Blinken expressed his condolences to the citizens of Northern Macedonia and Bulgaria
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken today expressed his condolences to the citizens of Northern Macedonia and Bulgaria for the loss of lives of many people in bus accident in Bulgaria and the fire in a home for the elderly and infirm in Bulgaria.
- The State Department and the American people express their deep condolences to the citizens of Northern Macedonia and Bulgaria for the tragic loss of life in today's bus accident and yesterday's fire in a home for the elderly and infirm. "Our hearts are with all the mourners, and we wish the injured a speedy recovery," Blinken wrote on Twitter.
The @StateDept & American people extend our deep condolences to the people of North Macedonia and Bulgaria over the tragic loss of life in today's bus accident and in the nursing home fire. Our hearts go out to all those in mourning, and we wish a speedy recovery to the injured.
- Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) November 23, 2021
The bus of the company "Besa Trans" with Macedonian license plates, which was returning from Istanbul, caught fire this morning at three o'clock in the morning on the highway Sofia-Blagoevgrad, near the village Bosnek. The crash killed 45 passengers, including 12 children, and injured seven.
A fire that broke out yesterday in a home for the elderly and infirm in the village of Royak in eastern Bulgaria has killed nine people, some of them suffocating from smoke, a senior Bulgarian Interior Ministry official said earlier.
