Blast Rocks Ammo Plant in Bulgaria's Iganovo

Society » INCIDENTS | March 21, 2015, Saturday // 20:44

A munitions plant in Southern Bulgaria is on fire after an explosion that occurred early on Saturday evening.

No casualties have been reported in the incident at the VMZ Sopot factory located in the village of Iganovo. Plovdiv District Governor Rozanin Petkov has told 24 Chasa daily there were no people at the time of the blast.

The explosion, however, could be heard at a distance as far as Sopot, which is 18 km from Iganovo.

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