Rescue teams have pulled out another five bodies, taking the death toll in the sunken Macedonian ship in Ohrid lake up to 22, all of whom might be Bulgarians, according to local media reports.
Some of the Bulgarian tourists who were on board of the Lake Ohrid ship that went underwater in Macedonia Saturday are from the small town of Pirdop.
Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv has canceled all celebrations for the Unification Day, Sept. 6, over the tragedy in Ohrid, Macedonia, in which at least 13 Bulgarian tourists died.
Rescue teams have pulled out another five bodies, taking the death toll in the sunken Macedonian ship in Ohrid lake up to 22, according to local media reports.
Seven Bulgarians from the "Ilinden" ship that sunk Saturday in the Ohrid Lake have been transported to the Ohrid hospital.
Eyewitnesses of the sinking of the boat that went udnerwater during a sightseeing tour of Macedonia's Ohrid Lake said that everything happened very quickly.
The Ilinden ship which sank in Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, Saturday had 74 tourists on board, while it was not supposed to transport more than 43 people.
At least 17 people were killed when a tourist boat carrying a group of Bulgarian tourists sank on Lake Ohrid, Radio Srbija reported, without confirming claims that there were also Serbs aboard.
The son of the owner of Ilinden ship that sank on a Macedonia's Lake Ohrid, claiming the lives of at least seventeen people, including Bulgarians, is probably also among the dead, reports say.
Mile Janakievski, Macedonia's Minister of Transport, has resigned on moral grounds over the ship accident in the Ohrid Lake.
A bus with license plates from the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv is parked on the shore of the Ohrid Lake in Macedonia.
Seventeen Bulgarian tourists, who were sailing aboard the Ilinden ship, have probably died after it sank in the Ohrid lake some 200 meters off the coast, a Bulgarian minister announced.
There have been many Bulgarian tourists and probably some Serbs aboard the boat that sank on a Macedonia's Lake Ohrid, according to reports.
At least 6 of the 17 people who died Saturday when the tourist ship Ilinden sank in the Ohrid Lake in Macedonia have been identified as Bulgarians.
The Macedonian-flagged ship that sank in the Ohrid lake on Saturday, some 200 meters off the coast, was overloaded with too many passengers before going underwater with fifty Bulgarian tourists onboard, reports say.
The Macedonian government is holding Saturday an emergency meeting over the tragic accident in which a ship with Bulgarian tourists sank in the Ohrid Lake.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, is going to propose to his cabinet a mourning day over the tourist ship tragedy in Ohrid, Macedonia, where at least 13 Bulgarians died Saturday.
Five people have been declared missing when a boat carrying mostly Bulgarian tourists sank on Lake Ohrid in southwest Macedonia on Saturday, the government said.
At least thirteen Bulgarian tourists, who were sailing aboard the Ilinden ship, have died after it sank in the Ohrid lake some 200 meters off the coast, Macedonian media reported.
The Macedonian-flagged ship that sank in the Ohrid lake , some 200 meters off the coast, was in sorry condition and split into two before going underwater with fifty Bulgarian tourists onboard, witnesses say.
Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, has ordered the plane of the Bulgarian government, Tu-154, to take off immediately for Ohrid, Macedonia, in order to bring home the Bulgarian survivors.
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