保加利亞高速公路連環車禍12死50傷

作者：亞歷克斯・萊夫科維茨（Alex Lefkowitz）By Alex Lefkowitz

索菲亞，11月10日（路透社）——官員表示，保加利亞東部一條高速公路週二在濃霧中發生數十輛車相撞的連環車禍，造成12人死亡。SOFIA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Twelve people died in a motorway pile-up in eastern Bulgaria on Tuesday involving dozens of vehicles in thick fog, officials said.

警方、消防人員和救護車人員趕赴A1公路上亞姆博爾市附近的事故現場；這條公路連接首都索菲亞與東部城市布爾加斯。當地媒體畫面顯示，汽車和卡車散落堆疊在六線道公路上，許多車輛遭壓毀、翻覆，或衝到路邊。Police, firefighters and ambulance crews rushed to the scene near the city of Yambol on the A1 road that links the capital Sofia with the eastern city of Burgas. Images on local media showed cars and trucks piled up across six lanes of highway, many crushed, overturned, or veered off to the side.

內政部祕書長柳博米爾・尼科洛夫（Lyubomir Nikolov）在事故現場向記者簡報時表示，霧很可能是這起事故的原因。事故起於布爾加斯以西約75公里（47英里）處一輛巴士與一輛卡車相撞。Briefing reporters at the site of the accident, General Secretary of the Interior Ministry, Lyubomir Nikolov, said that fog was the likely cause of the accident which started with a collision between a bus and a truck about 75 kilometres (47 miles) west of Burgas.

衛生部長卡蒂亞・伊夫科娃（Katya Ivkova）告訴記者，11人在現場死亡，另有1人在醫院不治。Eleven people died at the scene and another died in hospital, Healthcare Minister Katya Ivkova told reporters.

內政部表示，另有50名傷者被送往醫院。Another 50 people who were injured were taken to hospital, according to the interior ministry.

亞姆博爾州州長格奧爾基・查拉科夫（Georgi Chalakov）告訴保加利亞國家通訊社BTA，約有50輛車涉入事故。Yambol Regional Governor Georgi Chalakov told Bulgarian state news agency BTA that about 50 vehicles were involved.

總理魯門・拉德夫（Rumen Radev）表示，週三將是保加利亞的全國哀悼日。Prime Minister Rumen Radev said Wednesday would be a day of mourning in Bulgaria.

歐盟執委會主席烏蘇拉・馮德萊恩（Ursula von der Leyen）週二正在保加利亞訪問，但她表示將縮短行程。馮德萊恩說：「我想表達最深切的哀悼，也想向救援團隊致意。」European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was visiting Bulgaria on Tuesday but said she would cut her visit short. "I would like to express my deepest condolences and I would like to pay respects to the rescue teams," von der Leyen said.

拉德夫在聲明中形容這起事故是「悲劇」，並表示他已調派飛機疏散傷者，且計畫前往現場；事發初期有人受困車內。Radev described the accident as a "tragedy" in a statement and said that he had deployed aircraft to evacuate the wounded and planned to visit the scene, where initially people had been trapped in their vehicles.

（亞歷克斯・萊夫科維茨採訪報導；伊凡娜・塞庫拉拉克撰稿；愛德華・麥卡利斯特與蘇珊・芬頓編輯）(Reporting by Alex Lefkowitz; Writing by Ivana Sekularac; Editing by Edward McAllister and Susan Fenton)