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Two environmentalists – prominent climber Boyan Petrov and Andrey Kovachev injured in serious road accident

Boyan Petrov

Renowned Bulgarian mountain climber Boyan Petrov, who scaled his 8th 8,000 meter peak this year, a zoologist by profession working at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia and environmentalist Andrey Kovachev from the Green Balkans, an organization working for the preservation of rare species and habitats in Bulgaria, were injured in a serious road accident in Kresna Gorge in southern Bulgaria yesterday. The two are in intensive care. Andrey Kovachev has a cerebral oedema. Boyan Petrov is in a medically-induced coma, with a head trauma, broken ribs and lung injuries. Petrov and Kovachev were working on an environmental roadkill-counting project along the E79 where the Struma motorway should pass. 



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