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Caretaker prime minister checks condition of fence along Bulgarian-Turkish border

Photo: Facebook / Council of Ministers

Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev is checking the current state of the fence on the Bulgarian-Turkish state border, the Council of Ministers has reported on its Facebook page. With a helicopter the minister checked whether there were compromised areas and if there was a need for video surveillance.

The acting ministers of defense and internal affairs - Atanas Zapryanov and Atanas Ilkov, the director of the Border Police Chief Commissioner Anton Zlatanov and the chief of defense Admiral Emil Eftimov accompany the prime minister.

Since the beginning of the year to September 9, a total of 40,210 attempts of people to enter the country through the Bulgarian-Turkish border were detected, Minister of the Interior Atanas Ilkov announced in response to a parliamentary question in September.


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