The man injured in the explosions at a fireworks warehouse near the village of Elin Pelin has died. The doctors did everything they could, condolences to the family, said Prof. Nikolai Gabrovski from Pirogov emergency hospital where the people injured were admitted. The other person injured, a 20-year old girl, who has 85% burns and has inhaled toxic gases, is in critical condition and with a very grave prognosis. There is information that there are two people still inside the warehouse facility, one of them is the owner’s son.
The warehouse, holding two tons TNT equivalent is unaffected.
Caretaker Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov stated, at a briefing, that there is a powerful conflagration in the centre of the warehouse facility and that it continues. Throughout the night there were drone carrying out overflights every hour to monitor the whole situation, the helicopter is expected to overfly the region, Minister Stoyanov said further. After that a decision will be made whether the helicopter should join the efforts to extinguish the flames – mostly by cooling the area around the warehouse which is being monitored. Explosions are still coming from the burning warehouse. Kalin Stoyanov stated that all action at the incident site will begin no earlier than 24 hours after the last explosion.
Early this morning the logistics base of a large food chain located close to the fireworks warehouses was re-ignited. Firefighters report that while they were extinguishing the fire, pyrotechnic articles were falling from the roof and that is the reason why the warehouse is still on fire. The explosions were re-activated at around 5 AM, said Minister Stoyanov and added that their intensity is being monitored, and that they will probably go on for several hours.
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