SOFIA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and six others injured after two freight trains collided head-on at around 4 pm local time on Wednesday between Svetovrachene and Kremikovtzi stations near Sofia.
Chief Commissioner Lyubomir Nikolov, head of the Sofia Directorate of the Ministry of Interior, told reporters that preliminary information indicated eight people were on the trains.
He said a fire broke out in one of the locomotives following the collision, but it was quickly extinguished. One train was transporting ferrous metals, while the other was carrying furniture, Nikolov added.
The Health Ministry said that the six injured were transported to hospitals, with two of them in serious condition.
After the accident, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev dismissed Biser Minchev, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, who was in charge of railway transport within the ministry.
