A chain accident of about 50 cars on a foggy highway in eastern Bulgaria left at least 11 dead and 50 injured on Tuesday, November 19, and led to the closure of that road.
According to the Reuters news agency, UAV images released from the scene of the accident near the city of Yambul show cars and trucks piled up in six lanes of the A1 highway. Many cars were crushed, overturned or dragged to the side of the road. This highway connects Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, to the city of Burgas in the east of the country.
Lyubomir Nikolov, secretary general of Bulgaria's interior ministry, said dense fog was likely the cause of the accident, which began when a bus and a truck collided on the road leading to Burgas.
The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Roman Radov, described the incident as a "tragedy" and said that planes were sent to evacuate the injured.