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Police, rescue teams and ambulances have arrived at the site of the traffic accident. File photo
Most of the casualties, who died in a tragic bus accident in Southeastern Bulgaria on Thursday morning, have been identified and found to be citizens of the town of Yambol and the nearby villages.
Sixteen people were killed and another twenty injured as a bus sliced into a throng of tourists near the town of Yambol.
There are ten elderly women and a sixteen-year-old boy among the casualties.
The tourists, gathered in the area on the occasion of the religious holiday Ascension Day, or the so called Spasovden, were climbing towards the Bakadzhik peak, when the bus, coming in the opposite direction, cut into them.
Police said a technical malfunction caused failure of the bus's brakes.
The bus was a thirty-year-old charter coach, which had recently passed successfully a technical check-up.
Reports say people, who are gathered in the area for the holiday, are in panic and are worriedly searching for relatives and friends, if they have not seen them for the last few hours.
Rescue teams and ambulances have arrived at the location and the injured have been taken to the Emergency Room in the nearby city of Yambol.
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