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.
Sofia will welcome the Christmas and New Year holidays with brilliant decorations in all areas of the city. A major highlight in the transformation of the capital will be the beautiful Christmas trees placed in key locations. The tallest among..
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The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07 following an inspection by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. In addition to the repairs made to improve..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
One million and eight hundred Bulgarian citizens travelled as tourists during the third quarter of the year, National Statistical Institute data show...
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