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Bulgarian bus crash kills at least 15.


Summary: At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus crashed into a crowd of people in southeastern Bulgaria.

At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus crashed into a crowd of people in southeastern Bulgaria.

Two of the vehicle's elderly passengers are among the dead, officials said.

A spokeswoman for the regional police department in the city of Yambol, around 162 miles southeast of Sofia, said: "For now, the number of the dead is 15. Four others were severely injured and seven people suffered minor injuries."

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 civil defence officials in Yambol, the total number of injured was 24, state news agency BTA (Business Technology Association, Kansas City, MO, www.bta.org). A membership association of manufacturers, dealers, distributors and service companies in the business equipment and systems industries, founded in 1994.  reported.

The Interior Ministry in Sofia said a technical glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack.  meant the bus could not stop.

The accident happened near the site of a local fair crowded with people who were celebrating Orthodox Ascension Ascension, in Christianity
Ascension, name usually given to the departure of Jesus from earth as related in the Gospels according to Mark (16) and Luke (24) and in Acts 1.1–11.
 Day.

Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev interrupted his election campaign tour ahead of a July 5 parliamentary vote and headed to the site of the accident, the government said in a statement.

The cabinet will call a national day of mourning National Day of Mourning may refer to:
  • National Day of Mourning (United States), held on the fourth Thursday of November, an American Indian protest
  • National Day of Mourning (Canada), held 28 April, a commemoration of workers killed or injured on the job
, it said.

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Date:May 29, 2009
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