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. Authori
Rumours that the fire in a Bulgarian train that killed eight was an assassination attempt against a famous archeologist have spread in his hometown of Shumen. Professor Rasho Rashev, director of the National Archaeological Institute with the Bulgarian Ac
Valeriya Zheleva, the 20-year-old student from Sofia University, who was the first to be identified among the casualties of the Bulgarian train fire, was buried on Monday in her home town of Dobrich.
Two of the eight dead bodies that were recovered from the charred carriages of the burned-out train in northern Bulgaria have not yet been identified, experts said on Monday.
Six out of the eight dead bodies that were recovered from the charred carriages of the burned-out train in Bulgaria were identified on Sunday.
Fears that Professor Rasho Rashev, director of the National Archaeological Institute with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, might be among those who died in the Sofia-Kardam night train fire were confirmed on Sunday.
Four out of the eight dead bodies that were recovered from the charred carriages of the burned-out train in Bulgaria have already been identified, it emerged on Sunday.
A day after the deadly hurricane Emma hammered Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic, Bulgaria is on the alert for its gale-force winds. Weather forecasters are expecting the hurricane tail to hit Bulgaria on Sunday, causing the winds to reach up to 20
A 20-year-old lady was the first to be identified among the casualties of the fire that raged through two sleeping compartments on a train in northern Bulgaria early on Friday. Valeriya Zheleva Zheleva was identified Saturday evening by her parents and s
Four of the dead in the Sofia-Kardam train fire Thursday night are men, and the other four are women. This was found from the outside inspection of the charred corpses, the head of the Forensic Medicine Service in the city of Pleven Professor Dr.
More than 20 calls have been received Saturday at the Forensic Medicine Service in Pleven by people looking for their relatives who may have died in the fire in the Sofia-Kardam train Thursday night.
Over 4000 people gathered Saturday morning in the town of Sapareva Banya in order to support the project for a ski resort in the Panichiste-Lakes area in the Rila Mountain.
The Minister of Interior Rumen Petkov opened Saturday an exhibition at the Interior Ministry Museum dedicated to the 130 anniversary of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, which liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire.
It is possible that more than eight people died in the fire in the Sofia-Kardam train Thursday night. This was announced Saturday by Prosecutor Valeri Mirchev, who observes the train fire case.
The corpses of the eight people who died Friday in the fire in the Sofia-Kardam train are still not identified.
All Bulgarians celebrated Saturday a centuries-old tradition - exchanging martenitsas on the day of Baba Marta and the shining sun spelled nice weather ahead.
A boy at the age of six and her mother have been hit by a jeep at a zebra crossing in a central Sofia boulevard on Friday. The child was rushed to Pirogov Emergency Institute in an extremely poor condition.
A fluorescent light-bulb explosion has been blamed for the hellish fire that swept through an overnight train in Bulgaria, leaving eight people dead and another nine injured.
Damage in the hydrant of a fire car that tried to put off the blazes in the Sofia-Kardam night train impeded their fast extinction, reports said on Friday. The fire brigades managed to start working about half-an-hour after they arrived on the spot.
Eight people died after two cars of the night train going from Sofia to the northeastern town of Kardam burst into flames minutes after midnight. Nine people were also injured in the blaze but doctors assured that their lives are out of danger.
Only one out of three fire-extinguishers was functioning at the time when Sofia-Kardam night train caught fire early on Friday, witness claimed. "The greatest paradox was that even the only extinguisher, which could be used, was not in perfect order,"
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