2
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.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends that Bulgarian citizens refrain from traveling to Israel and Palestine due to the rapidly changing security situation in the Middle East in recent days, BTA reported. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs..
Thursday will be sunny and warm across the country , with a light north-easterly wind. Minimum temperatures will be between 13°C and 21°C, with a low of 13°C in Sofia. Highs will be between 32°C and 37°C, 32°C in the capital. Sunny skies are..
Stanislav Balabanov, Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary group of There Is Such a People (ITN), described the meeting with the group of MPs who support the unity of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) under the leadership of its Honorary..
Smoke from the fire at the landfill in Tsalapitsa village which broke out last night over an area of around 1.6 hectares, has filled the air over..
The parliamentary budget committee approved, at second reading, the bill on the introduction of the Euro in Bulgaria submitted by the Council of..
Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev stated in plenary that the situation concerning the wildfires is serious but that, for now, we do not need any..
sunshine, cloud, rain and thunder
Partly Cloudy
Mostly Cloudy
Partly cloudy, chance of rain