The train was bound for Plovdiv, it had not yet left when a big impact happened, something was felt confusion.
This is what a passenger from the train that was hit by a shunting locomotive at the central railway station in Sofia told BNT today.
"The seats opposite me collapsed. A locomotive hit us from behind. I saw a father and a child fall because they were standing in the corridor. A woman was shouting: they hit us, they hit us, get up and get out now and I got up and got out. The ladder we were going up was broken. There was chaos, we saw injured people. I saw the conductor injured, I saw other people, there were many injured," he added.
"We are standing in the train, the maneuver hits our train from behind, all the passengers bump into each other. Suitcases fall, seats fall. In first class, the seats had fallen so far that the suitcase could not be removed. The passengers had boarded and at the impact they were all thrown back and forth. Two women were injured from the last carriage, who took them to the ambulance, said another passenger from the train.
Earlier, the Minister of Transport Georgi Gvozdeikov announced that six people were injured. "The accident is minor. A train, which is composed for Plovdiv, waits for its time to leave, at rest. He was hit from behind by a shunting machine. The speed at which the machine stops in the last carriage was too low, 15-22 km. maximum. The driver felt sick and was unable to stop the shunting machine at a safe distance, explained Gvozdeikov, who entered the passenger train involved in the accident. There was no frontal impact. Six people were admitted to hospital, they were slightly injured. They are from the maneuver brigade. These data are yet to be clarified. It's the driver's fault. It is not true that the cause of the accident is that there is a problem with the signs at the station,”, the minister was categorical.