The man who shot three teenage boys in Sofia Wednesday night has been arrested, Interior Minister Rumen Petkov has said. 22-year-old Nikola Yurukov has quite a long list of previous offences, including thefts and robberies.
The powerful bomb explosion in front of the apartment of a prominent Bulgarian television reporter has left his house completely demolished. "Everything in the apartment is blown to pieces, the rest of the apartments literally lay in ruins," said the cri
The Bulgarian crime reporter, whose house was demolished by a powerful bomb early on Thursday, suspects the assault might have been triggered by one of his three key investigative stories. "It could be the story about the cops' prostitutes, the abuses at
A Bulgarian who was attacked by a pack of stray dogs in Sofia's South Park spent an hour perched on a tree, media reported. The 41-year-old man was walking through the park late Wednesday evening when the dogs chased after him.
Bulgarian journalist Vassil Ivanov, whose house was targeted by a bomb early Thursday morning, has said that suspects which of his investigations could have caused the violent act. The police, however, have advised him not to speak out on the matter, so
Three students have been injured in a Sofia shoot-out last night. They were injured after a quarrel erupted between the three and another group of youths at their age at Sofia's Fondovi Zhilishta neighbourhood.
A powerful bomb explosion went off in front of the apartment of Bulgarian top crime reporter Vassil Ivanov from private Nova TV last night. No one was injured in the explosion, but there are serious material damages.
Bulgarian police have busted a five-member gang that distributed fake debit and credit cards and trafficked drugs.
Police have busted a Sofia-based company that has attempted to withhold EUR 6 M in taxes. The company's manager had used forged documents to "save" taxes, it became clear during the investigation.
Pazardzhik regional prosecutor's office has prolonged with another 2 months the investigation into the gruesome murder of the two sisters Belneyski, local Darik radio reported. Plovdiv deputy appeal prosecutor Rumen Boev told Darik that the investigation
Bulgaria's police rescued a Greek businessman, who was kidnapped after coming to Bulgaria to meet a business partner. The 59-year-old Greek businessman P.
A 44-year-old woman was found stabbed to death early on Saturday by her son, a teenager.
A total of 385kg of hashish worth BGN 10 M were busted in an operation of the Bulgarian police. The drugs were found in a storehouse in the northern industrial part of Sofia, Bulgaria's National Police Chief General Valentin Petrov explained.
A gang of unknown robbers stole more than BGN 60,000 in a raid on the hospital in Bulgaria's second-biggest town of Plovdiv. The money was meant for wages for the medical staff at the local Saint George hospital.
The border police in Bulgaria have dismissed a sergeant who was caught driving while intoxicated. Vladislav Yordanov, who works at the airport border police, crashed his private car on February 22, and his blood alcohol level was measured at 2.
Sofia city prosecutors raised charges against suspected underworld boss Zlatomir Ivanov and an accomplice of his for exhorting a foreign businessm?n. Prosecutors say in February 1999 the two threatened with murder and property confiscation their rival Mo
Several doctors were arrested in Varna at Bulgaria's seaside, media reported Thursday. The head of the "Internal diseases" ward in the "Saint Anna" hospital in the seaside city Sergey Proykov has been taken into custody along with several other medics.
A 62-year-old man from Bulgaria's Black Sea capital Varna has been arrested for swindles with sales of real estates. In May and April 2005 the man has twice inked a preliminary contract for sale of an apartment in the building that is still being constru
Over 500 cards for cell phones have been found in the home of killed Ivan Todorov, dubbed Doktora, Interior Minister Rumen Petkov said. He also commented that this is impeding the investigation for his murder.
Police authorities have busted an illegal drug factory in a village near Kyustendil in southwestern Bulgaria. Over 150 kilos of amphetamine powder, 120 kilos of materials like cellulose and quinine, and equipment, all worth about EUR 13.
A Bulgarian man was busted after he chopped a venerable oak from a protected area to use the wood for kindling, media reported. The centuries-old oak grew in a protected area near Hisar in Central Bulgaria and was home to a nesting colony of gray herons.
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