As a result of a mass accident on the highway in Bulgaria killed 11 people

Eleven people died in a road accident involving dozens of cars on a highway in eastern Bulgaria on Tuesday, November 10, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said.

Police, firefighters and ambulance crews arrived at the scene on the A1 highway, which connects the capital Sofia with the city of Burgas. Pictures published in local media showed cars and trucks piling up on six lanes of highway, many of which were dented, overturned or veered off the roadside.

"According to the interior ministry, fifty victims were taken to hospital," the report said.

Rumen Radev called the accident a tragedy in a statement made during a visit to Bulgaria by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. He said he had sent planes to evacuate the wounded and planned to visit the scene.

At a briefing for journalists at the scene of the accident, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria Lubomir Nikolov said that the likely cause of the accident, which began with a collision of a bus and a truck on the side of the highway in the direction of Burgas, was fog.