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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.
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 Bulgaria’s second biggest city – Plovdiv. The mobile stations of the Regional Inspectorate of..
40% of the country is a demographic desert, with a population of less than 10 people per square kilometer, said Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov who chairs the parliamentary committee on demographic policy, children and family. The committee is..
The parliamentary budget committee approved, at second reading, the bill on the introduction of the Euro in Bulgaria submitted by the Council of Ministers. Bulgaria's euro preparations on track, Finance Minister tells ECOFIN Council MPs..
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..
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