Bulgaria Military Plane Brings back Bodies from Macedonia Ohrid Tragedy

Relatives of the Bulgarian casualties have already arrived in Skopje for the identification of the bodies. Photo by BGNES

A military plane of the Bulgarian Defense Ministry is taking off at 5 pm Monday in order to bring back to Bulgaria the bodies of the 15 Bulgarian tourists who drowned in the Ohrid Lake on Saturday.

The bodies will probably be brought to Sofia late into the night. They will be identified for a second time in Skopje since Macedonia's chief pathologist has not recognized the identification carried out in the town of Ohrid, where the 15 Bulgarians died as a tourist boat went underwater.

A third identification might have to be performed in the Bulgarian capital Sofia; the recognition of the expertise by the Macedonian authorities is important for the suits that are to be filed by the casualties' relatives.

Earlier on Monday, relatives of the 15 dead tourists arrived in Skopje with the plane of the Bulgarian government in order to help identify the bodies. The initial protocols of the pathologists state drowning as the cause of the death of all 15 casualties.

 

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