A twenty nine-year-old female tourist died near the Rila Monastery after a huge beech tree fell on her tent, the fire department in the town of Rila told the Bulgarian National Radio. Another person was wounded. Tourists called 112 before 10 pm on Monday. Firefighters from the Rila Monastery arrived immediately at the scene of the accident, but the woman had already passed away. The thirty two-year-old wounded man has a broken shoulder. He was taken to a hospital in Blagoevgrad. A strong thunderstorm accompanied with hail and rain caused damages in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia last night. One person was slightly wounded after a lightning hit a roof of a big retail store, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova announced.
A scheme for tax crimes through the use of documents with false content about carrying out fictitious deals with fuel exempt from excise duty has been busted. The avoided payment of excise duty is over 4.8 million EUR. The company, which was..
We Continue the Change Co-chairman Kiril Petkov has submitted to the registry of the 51st National Assembly a waiver of his parliamentary immunity. ''Today, I signed a waiver of my parliamentary immunity. Neither Peevski, nor the other thugs,..
More than 1,000 people have participated in the pilot phase of the project "The Genome of Bulgaria", which aims to collect and analyze a representative sample of genomes from contemporary Bulgarians. With this initiative, Bulgaria will contribute to..
It is too early to predict how the events in Syria would affect the war in Ukraine. This is what EU Defense Commissioner Andrius..
We Continue the Change/Democratic Bulgaria (PP/DB) will propose the setting up of a parliamentary commission of inquiry to conduct a large-scale..
Minister of Culture Nayden Todorov awarded a Guardian of Heritage certificate to archaeologist Professor Lyudmil Vagalinski for his significant..
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