The number of victims in Tuesday’s two pile-ups on Trakia Motorway rose to 12 after a man died of his injuries in the Sliven Hospital, Director Vladislav Petrov told BTA on Thursday. The patient was aged 50. “Despite the medics’ efforts, he passed away at 6 this morning,” Dr Petrov said.
Eleven people were killed on site and 51 were hospitalized after two major pile-ups involving 86 vehicles near the Zimnitsa junction in Yambol Region on Tuesday morning. One crash was in the Burgas-bound and one in the Sofia-bound carriageway of Trakia Motorway in thick fog.
Labour and Social Policy Minister Nataliya Efremova said on Bulgarian National Television’s morning programme on Thursday that the medical treatment of the injured will be fully covered by the State. She noted that the authorities were awaiting information about the identities and places of residence of those killed in the accidents so that their heirs and relatives could be identified and contacted by the Social Assistance Agency for a one-off financial assistance of EUR 8,000 each. Efremova also noted that municipalities across Bulgaria offered social services through which psychologists could provide free assistance to survivors and injured people, including therapy and rehabilitation.
The Sliven Municipal Council decided on Thursday that the families of five people from Sliven Region who died in the pile-ups on Trakia Motorway will each receive EUR 2,000 in financial assistance from the municipal budget. The one-off assistance was proposed by Sliven Mayor Stefan Radev. Four of the victims who died on the day of the crashes were from the village of Samuilovo, and the 50-year-old man who died in hospital on Thursday was from Sliven, the Mayor told reporters.
A total of 567 people across the country have donated blood as part of a campaign to help those injured in the pile-ups, Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC) Deputy Director General Nadezhda Todorovska told BTA on Thursday. The campaign is a joint initiative of the BRC, Sofia Municipality, and the National Centre for Transfusion Haematology.
In Sofia, 397 people donated blood. However, around 200 people were unable to donate because the blood centres could not accommodate everyone who wished to help. The centres remained open outside their regular working hours, Todorovska added. In Yambol, 36 people donated blood, while in Sliven, 77 people donated on the first day of the campaign and a further 57 on Wednesday, Todorovska said. She urged people to donate blood regularly to ensure a steady supply of blood products and maintain sufficient reserves to respond to similar incidents.

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