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Bulgaria bus crash kills at least 46 people

At least 46 people have died, most of them tourists from North Macedonia, after a bus caught fire on a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials have said, The Guardian writes. Children were among the victims, and seven people with burns were taken to hospital in the capital, Sofia, the head of the fire safety department at the interior ministry, Nikolai Nikolov, told BTV television.

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