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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has wrapped up its regular mission in Bulgaria
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The 26-year-old Aleksandar Dimitrov, who was declared missing after the disastrous earthquake, which hit Nepal on Saturday, established contact with his mother on Monday and explained that he is alive and healthy.
He has spent the past three days in a tent camp, where he did not have opportunity to contact his relatives, private NOVA TV station reports.
Earlier on Monday, his worried father said on NOVA TV that he had talked to his son for the last time on Thursday.
Aleksandar is a second year student at the NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and departed for Nepal in February, where he is doing an internship at a tour operator firm.
His father explained that he contacted the situation centre of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday, but the authorities did not have any information on the whereabouts of his son.
The father also contacted the Bulgarian embassy in India, but no one responded to his phone calls on Saturday and Sunday.
A friend of Aleksandar published a photo and information of the missing student in the Google Person Finder service, providing physical description and the place of his accommodation in Kathmandu.
According to latest reports, the earthquake with maginute of 7.9 claimed the lives of more than 3700 people, while more than 6500 were injured.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no information on killed or injured Bulgarian citizens.
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