Six of the people hurt in the two major pile-ups on the Trakia motorway are expected to leave hospital today, the fourth day after the crashes. Four are from Burgas and two are from Yambol.

Seven injured people are in Burgas hospitals, two of them in a serious condition. The worst off is a Romanian citizen, who is on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.

Hospitals in Sofia, Burgas, Sliven and Yambol are treating 35 injured people. Doctors are still fighting to save the lives of some of them, and three are in a serious condition.

Sliven has the most patients. Fifteen people are in the Dr Ivan Seliminski hospital, all of them stable, and another 6 are in the city's Military Medical Academy.

One of the 5 people in the Yambol hospital is in a serious condition. Two more injured people are in the Military Medical Academy in Sofia.