Friends and relatives are to take Tuesday final leave of Professor Rasho Rashev, director of the National Archaeological Institute with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the 20-year-old Stoyan Kovachev, who died in the Bulgarian train blazes.

Authorities in the town of Shumen, where the two were born, declared a day of mourning over the tragic deaths.

The national flag on the municipality's building will be half lowered and all festive events scheduled for today are to be canceled.

Professor Rashev will be buried in the Alley of the famous Shumen citizens. A mourning nook is to be ordered in the university in the northern town so that all people could lay flowers under the professor's obituary.

Both victims were identified after their charred bodies underwent autopsy and DNA analyses.

Rasho Rashev and Stoyan Kovachev are among the eight people, who lost their lives after a fire swept through the overnight train travelling from the capital Sofia to the north-eastern town of Kardam shortly before midnight on Thursday.

Officials suspect that the number of casualties may rise if the body parts scarred throughout the charred carriages do not match the eight bodies.

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