Police in in Bulgaria's southern city of Stara Zagora have detained a local who spent three hours making prank calls to the 112 emergency number with false reports of unrest in the Roma quarter.

32-year-old K.K first dialed 112 a little after 8 p.m. on Thursday, telling the operator that a serious incident had taken place in Stara Zagora's Roma-populated quarter.

Police squads were dispatched immediately to the spot, only to find that the report was bogus.

Minutes later, the fraudster made s second 112 call, claiming that the neighborhood was being raided by youths.

Police officers arrived to the check the signal and saw that it was another false alert.

KK persisted with the prank calls for 3 hours until his location was detected and he was apprehended.

K.K, who has a criminal record, has been detained for 24 hours.

His offence comes against a backdrop of a subsiding wave of protests across Bulgaria triggered by the September 23 death of a 19-year-old boy ran over by an alleged associate of Roma clan leader Kiril Rashkov, aka Tsar Kiro, in the Katunitsa village near Plovdiv.

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