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Shumen District Court sentenced train driver Dimitar Mihnev to 15 years in prison, while assistant driver Radoslav Petkov was sentenced to 10 years in Bulgarian prison for the Hitrino train accident.
Convicted train drivers operated the train that derailed on December 10, 2016 in the area of Hitrino station as the train was carrying polypropylene and propane-butane tanks. The train owned by a private railway company was on its route to Romania, but entering the area of the train station it did not reduce the speed to the set limit and derailment followed.
7 people were killed and 29 injured as a result. Dozens of buildings in Hitrino were destroyed or suffered significant damage after the explosion that followed the derailment.
On Tuesday minimum temperatures will range from 12° C. to 17° C., for Sofia 12° C. During the day the weather will be predominantly sunny. At around midday and in the afternoon cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds will form mostly over the mountains and..
The Ambassador of the Republic of North Macedonia to Bulgaria Agneza Rusi Popovska has sent a letter of gratitude to the director of the Pirogov Emergency hospital in Sofia Dr. Valentin Dimitrov, expressing gratitude for the rescue of the children and..
National Assembly President Natalia Kiselova expressed the hope that the work of the MPs will not be jeopardized, after the Vazrazhdane leader called on the public to block the work of parliament on Wednesday, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports...
At a meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov stressed that the country is..
More than 2,000 post offices in small towns and villages will exchange Leva for Euro from the day Bulgarian joins the Eurozone, Stanimir Belinov,..
National Assembly President Natalia Kiselova expressed the hope that the work of the MPs will not be jeopardized, after the Vazrazhdane leader called on..
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