The driver of the Serbian bus that overturned on the Trakia highway in Bulgaria was ordered to be detained for up to 24 hours, the police announced at the briefing, reports N1.
Nova.bg reports that, according to initial information, he suffered minor injuries and probably had a broken arm. The alcohol and drug test was negative, and the indictment against him will most likely be filed today.
Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar, who visited the injured in the hospital in Stara Zagora, initially told journalists in Bulgaria that the driver's leg had been amputated, but later denied it in a statement to RTS, stating that the leg was amputated to a parent.
Eight children and four adults were injured when a Serbian bus fell into a ditch and overturned on the highway to Sofia, Bulgaria.
Most of the injured are children, who, as he confirmed, are mostly members of the folklore ensemble JU-LIRA from Batajnica.
The children were returning from the festival in Nessebar and their parents were with them.
The cause of the accident is not yet known, but according to the testimony of a female passenger, the bus left the road at the moment when the driver leaned down to lower the passenger's seat, so that a parent with a sick child could sit on it.
The Minister of Health of Serbia, Zlatibor Lončar, also visited the injured who are in the hospital in Stara Zagora.
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