Two people seriously hurt in the crash on the Trakia motorway are being taken to Burgas, orthopaedic trauma surgeon Prof. Asen Baltov told BNT.

Earlier today, a Burgas hospital sent three ambulances with medical teams to two multi-vehicle pile-ups on the motorway near Yambol. Prof. Baltov, a former MP, went in one of them with orthopaedic surgeons.

Background: Burgas hospital sent three ambulances and orthopaedic surgeons to the Trakia crashes

One of the injured is a Romanian citizen with multiple injuries and trauma to the abdomen and chest.

"The other patient is a colleague of ours who works at St Anastasia hospital. He also has multiple injuries and many fractures, as well as a head injury," Prof. Baltov said.

He said that with injuries this serious, there is always a direct risk to life.

The professor added that he had never seen an accident like this in his life.