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The relatives of the Serbian children injured in the bus crash on Trakia Highway meet with Pirogov hospital director

Pirogov Emergency Hospital in Sofia
Photo: Ani Petrova, BNR

The director of the Sofia-based Pirogov emergency hospital, Dr. Valentin Dimitrov, welcomed the families of the two boys who were seriously injured in the traffic accident with a Serbian bus on Sunday on Bulgaria's Trakia Highway near the town of Stara Zagora. Mrs. Slavica Panic who is the interim head of the embassy of Serbia in Bulgaria was also present. 
The director of Pirogov hospital assured that everything possible and the best was being done for the two patients.

Dimitrov told journalists this morning that the two children were still in serious condition and in intensive care, but without direct danger to their lives.


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