Witness of Bulgaria Bus Tragedy: There are Dead Bodies Everywhere

A bus careered down a mountainside and plowed through a crowd of pedestrians heading to a religious festival in southeastern Bulgaria Thursday, killing at least 16 people and injuring at least 20. Photo by BGNES

A policeman, who rescued two women as a bus ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians in south-eastern Bulgaria, said dead bodies were all around him.

"Everything happened very quickly, I have no idea how it all happened," Dimitrov told Darik Radio.

"I saw a bus coming from the peak, where the stage for the fair was erected. It was moving very fast towards us, there were two women in front of me and I pushed them out of the way. Then I was hit, that was all," shared the policeman, who has been working in the system of the Interior Department for twenty five years.

In his words his colleagues helped him stand up and he saw dead bodies all around him.

"The bus had sliced itself into the forest, some fifteen meters from the road. Thank God, there were trees to stand in its way, I have no idea how many more people it could have killed."

A bus ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians in south-eastern Bulgaria, killing at least 16 people and injuring 20 others.

Police say the driver appeared to lose control of the vehicle after its brakes failed while travelling down a mountain pass near the town of Yambol, called Bakadzhik peak.

The victims had been walking up the peak to attend a traditional Ascension Day feast and fair held on the summit.

At least four of the injured are in a very serious condition in hospital.

The bus was carrying 19 elderly passengers, two of whom are among the dead, officials said.

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