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In an ever-escalating row with the Bulgarian government, the BBC has accused the interior of endangering the safety of two of the corporation's reporters by releasing "confidential information and personal details".
The BBC reacted to last week's interio
Crime | August 12, 2007, Sunday // 00:00
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A lightning caused a fire in the forensic medicine building in Bulgaria's capital city of Sofia on Saturday, burning 800 square meters of the roof construction.
There are no reports of casualties or injured people.
Crime | August 11, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
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A Czech family was robbed near Bulgaria's Plovdiv city in the early hours of Saturday, Darik News reported.
Crime | August 11, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
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A total of 20 car accidents occurred Friday night across Bulgaria, killing two people.
Another 20 passengers were injured and the life of one of them is still in danger.
Crime | August 11, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
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The life of a 19-year-old boy from Bulgaria's town of Pernik is in danger after he was heavily injured in a hellish car hit in the early hours of Saturday.
The car, which was driven by a friend of the victim.
Crime | August 11, 2007, Saturday // 00:00
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Bulgarian police in the town of Kyustendil detained Friday a 40-year-old man, who has been producing amphetamines in his home, Darik News reported.
Crime | August 10, 2007, Friday // 00:00
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A total of six Turkish citizens have been arrested Friday at Bulgaria's Kapitan Andreevo border check-point over an attempt to immigrate into Western European countries.
Two women and four men were hiding in the trunks and between the seats of six cars.
Crime | August 10, 2007, Friday // 00:00
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A heavy load truck toppled over and demolished a stone fence in the Bulgarian village of Mokren, near the town of Sliven, Darik News reported.
Crime | August 10, 2007, Friday // 00:00
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The life of the girl, who was heavily wounded in a car crash caused by Maxim Staviiski, is out of danger although her condition remains grave, doctors said on Friday.
Manuela Gorsova, 18, has undergone an operation in the Sofia hospital, where she was tr
Crime | August 10, 2007, Friday // 00:00
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The investigation of the deadly car crash, which involved Bulgaria's top skater Maxim Staviiski is still in its initial stage, a prosecutor from Burgas Regional Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
"The final results will be ready within two months," prosecu
Crime | August 10, 2007, Friday // 00:00
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Two fire fighters have been injured Friday while draining the basement of a flooded residential building in Bulgaria's second city of Plovdiv.
Iliya Petkov, 44 and Ivan Mitev, 39 have breathed great amount of burned gases, as they worked too long time wi
Crime | August 10, 2007, Friday // 00:00
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A total of 19 car accidents occurred Thursday night across Bulgaria, miraculously claiming no victims.
The number of the passengers injured in the hits is 19, as the life of one of them is still in danger.
Crime | August 10, 2007, Friday // 00:00
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Sofia's Prosecutor's Office raised charges against its former head Slavcho Karzhev on Thursday, Darik News reported,
Karzhev is charged in malfeasance in office in the time between April and June 2004.
Crime | August 9, 2007, Thursday // 00:00
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Sofia Appellate Court decided Thursday to leave in prison one of the criminals, who organized the assault against Dimitar Vuchev, dubbed Dembi, a notorious figure from Bulgaria's underworld.
The shots were fired on December 6, 2006 from a moving car, dri
Crime | August 9, 2007, Thursday // 00:00
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Two members of the BBC team, which purported to have exposed a bid to sell Bulgarian babies into the UK, have criminal records, the interior ministry announced.
Crime | August 9, 2007, Thursday // 00:00
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A 41-year-old man was arrested Thursday after the police found out he stabbed to death his cousin near the municipality building in Bulgaria's village of Mladovo three days ago.
The victim Georgi Ivanov, 46, who was serving as a security guard, went to c
Crime | August 9, 2007, Thursday // 00:00
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A 45-year-old Russian glider died Wednesday evening after he hit against a slope near Bulgaria's village of Dabene.
The accident occurred as the man tried to make a U-turn after he flied off a hill in spite of the extremely strong wind.
Crime | August 9, 2007, Thursday // 00:00
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Seven carriages from a freight train, travelling from the capital Sofia to the town of Karlovo, derailed near the village of Bunovo, sixty kilometres east of Sofia, Western Bulgaria.
Six of the derailed carriages were loaded with aluminium casts and the
Crime | August 8, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00
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A 24-year-old woman, who sat behind the wheel without having a driving licence, hit four pedestrians, three children among them in Bulgaria's town of Karlovo on Wednesday.
After injuring the children, aged 5, 8 and 16, as well as an elderly woman, the cu
Crime | August 8, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00
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Friends and relatives gathered at the funeral of the man, who was killed in a Sunday crash, caused by Bulgaria's world ice dancing champion Maxim Staviiski.
Petar Petrov, 24, was buried in his hometown of Sliven.
Crime | August 8, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00
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The girl, who was heavily wounded in a car crash caused by Maxim Staviiski was transported to Sofia late on Tuesday.
The victim Manuela Gorsova, 18, is still in coma and her condition is critical, the head of the Burgas Hospital said.
Crime | August 8, 2007, Wednesday // 00:00
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