Power supply has been restored in the Municipality of Pomorie, as well as in Sarafovo and Meden Rudnik residential areas in Burgas, which were left without electricity after a severe storm hit the area on Saturday. A partial state of emergency was declared in the town of Pomorie. The storm swept away electric poles and injured people. More than 300 trees had fallen in the coastal city of Burgas, Mayor Dimitar Nikolov said. More than 120 cars were damaged. Many windows were broken in the storm. The calamity damaged chimneys and billboards, and flooded streets. Hurricane-force winds have also caused damages in the town of Aytos.
The municipality of Devin was hit by a ten-minute storm on Saturday evening. Some roofs were blown off during the storm, Mayor Zdravko Ivanov said. Power supply is being restored. The road to the villages of Trigrad, Gyovren and Breze is now open. The road from Bachkovo Monastery to the village of Narechen is also being cleared from fallen trees.
Torrential rains and hurricane winds flooded streets and caused material damage in Blagoevgrad district. School buildings were flooded in the Municipality of Gotse Delchev. The strong wind swept away metal roofs and dozens of trees.
The fires on the Greek border have been contained and there is no fire progressing towards Bulgaria. Clearance has been made around the areas where there are old mines left over from the wars on both sides of the border, Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov..
MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk of the Renew Europe Group has been elected chair of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee. "Today I have been elected Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. Whenever I have been elected to..
Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev has said that no Bulgarian soldiers will be sent to Ukraine and that NATO has no intention of sending troops there. Glavchev answered questions from the press and citizens during a live broadcast on Facebook. He..
A total of 60 officers from the Bezmer and Kabile units are on the ground with equipment for firefighting, Bulgaria's Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov..
A man and a child have died after they were struck by lightning in the area of Mount Zhultets near Mount Botev in the Central Balkan Mountains. The alert..
Clouds will temporarily break by midnight. Sunny weather will prevail across most of the country on Monday before midday. Around and after noon, clouds..
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