The torrential storms and the tornado twister in the northern part of Bulgaria over the weekend have incurred damages of over BGN 4 M, according to preliminary estimates.

The damages as a result from the tornado, hailstorm and flood in the town of Turgovishte only stand at nearly BGN 4 M, local civil defence authorities said.

The storms and floods have shown no mercy also to national roads, farms and orchards most of which are badly ruined. Many people who occurred to be outside when the tornado blew suffered psychological traumas.

In some parts where the cherry-picking season in on the threshold, fruit is likely to get rotten, local farmers said. Grain plants in certain areas to the north of Bulgaria were killed by the severe hailstorms.

Bulging rivers to the north of the Balkans chain have left under water great parts of private and public farmland.

Lightning killed three people and a man was missing as storms swept Bulgaria, flooding farmland and destroying roads, police said on Monday.

A 74-aged woman died when she was struck by lightning while sheltering from torrential rain in the central town of Troyan on Sunday. In the southern towns of Haskovo and Plovdiv, two 20-aged men were struck and died in separate incidents.

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