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Assenovgrad in mourning after deadly car accident

Mon, Apr 21 2008 15:52 CET

byElitsa Grancharova

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On April 21, the seven victims of the car accident from the previous day were be buried in Assenovgrad. April 21 was also declared a day of mourning for the citizens of the town.

The accident happened in the early hours of April 20 on the road between Plovdiv and Assenovgrad, near the exit to the village of Kroumovo, private broadcaster bTV reported. An Opel with two 19-year-old girls and three young men, aged 19 to 24, veered into the opposite lane, colliding with an oncoming minibus with two passengers.

The Opel had a gas bottle, which caught fire and burned all five passengers. Accident eyewitness Krassimir Ivanov, who works at a nearby petrol station, said that the fire brigade was late, but according to traffic control, everything was over in minutes. At the same place in 2007 another three passengers died.

Investigators had not yet ascertained whether either driver was under the influence of alcohol. According to preliminary information, the minibus passengers were both without safety belts, while the Opel passengers were coming back from a nightclub.

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