Fire in Rila National Park Continues Unabated for Nearly a Week
The battle against the large fire in Rila, above Dupnitsa, has been ongoing for nearly a week
In a heart-wrenching plea, the parents of Ivana, a young girl missing from Dupnitsa for 16 days, have appealed for her safe return. With the ground search for Ivana called off two days ago, her parents took to the cameras of BNT to send a heartfelt message to their daughter, urging her to contact them if she sees or hears their plea.
"We've been in the dark for 16 days, we don't know where she is. We hope she's alive and well, if she's looking at us, call me or her father on the phone, we won't scold her for anything," expressed her mother, Maria, with tears in her eyes.

The family is grappling with uncertainty and anguish as they remain clueless about Ivana's whereabouts. Their last contact with her was on February 21, the day before she disappeared. Both parents suspect that Ivana might be feeling angry and hurt, possibly due to bullying from her classmates. They lamented that despite their efforts to seek help from the school principal regarding the bullying issue, no action was taken.
"We assume that Ivana is angry with everyone around her," Maria stated, while her husband expressed frustration over the lack of support from the school in addressing the bullying situation.
A fatal mountain accident claimed the life of a skier in the Pirin Mountains on Sunday afternoon after he left the marked ski runs and entered hard-to-access terrain in severe weather conditions.
Early Monday, a snowplow caught fire on Sofia’s Northern Tangent, just before the Kostinbrod junction, causing traffic to back up in the direction of Burgas
Bulgaria’s Maritime Administration has formally demanded that the owner of the oil tanker Kairos reimburse the state for all costs associated with the vessel’s removal from Bulgarian waters, totaling 270,371 euros
A 31-year-old woman died after a tree fell on her car on Vitosha Mountain, authorities confirmed. The family of four was traveling along Belovodski Pat Street toward the Kopitoto area when the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m.
In a tragic accident near Sliven, a 2-year-old child and his 35-year-old mother were killed this morning when a Sofia-Burgas passenger train collided with a horse-cart at the “Debelata Koriya” railway crossing
Two fatal house fires were recorded in Bulgaria over the past day, claiming the lives of two women and injuring four other people, according to information published by the General Directorate of Fire Safety and Population Protection
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