Send to Kindle
Twelve illegal migrants were detained in the Bulgarian capital on Thursday after a short car pursuit with the police.
Police officers ordered the driver of a minibus traveling on the Tsarigradsko Shose boulevard to stop for a check.
However the driver disobeyed the police order and a short pursuit ensued. The police managed to stop the vehicle after a short chase and to conduct a check despite the resistance of the driver.
They found twelve men who claimed to be from Afghanistan, the interior ministry's press service informs.
The driver of the minibus has been identified as a 58-year-old man from Sofia with a criminal record.
The foreigners have been taken to the district police department for establishing their identity and origin.
In a separate case, border policemen discovered the bodies of two men without identity documents near the southeastern town of Malko Tarnovo on Wednesday.
It is believed that the two men had illegally crossed the Bulgarian border from Turkey. No traces of violence have been observed on the bodies which are in the stage of decomposition.
The bodes have been taken for a post-mortem examination to the hospital in Burgas, with the first conclusions of the doctors expected to come out on Thursday.
The market for brand new passenger cars in Bulgaria saw notable growth in 2025, according to data from the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and their authorized representatives
Financier Levon Hampartzumyan has forecast a gradual rise in loan interest rates in Bulgaria, noting that current levels are historically very low and cannot be sustained indefinitely.
An unofficial outline of the expected caretaker cabinet headed by Andrey Gyurov has begun to circulate, with multiple familiar political figures likely to return to government
Twenty new high-clearance vehicles have been added to support state authorities in safeguarding Bulgaria’s territories within the EU’s Natura 2000 ecological network
In 2024, Bulgaria ranked second in the European Union in terms of road fatalities, according to a European Commission report assessing progress toward the goal of halving road deaths and injuries by 2030
Anton Kutev, former spokesperson for three caretaker governments, expressed confidence that former President Rumen Radev will secure a victory in the upcoming elections and establish a government regardless of circumstances
A teacher from the Pleven region has been taken into custody over allegations of sexual abuse involving two 13-year-old girls
The Sofia Court of Appeals has reduced the sentence of Orlin Vladimirov, convicted of murdering his wife Evgenia, from life imprisonment to 20 years
Deyan Iliev, the man who discovered the bodies in the Petrohan lodge on February 2 and subsequently alerted the police, has left Bulgaria,
The car and the entrance to the home of Samuil Popov, mayor of the village of Bistritsa, were deliberately set on fire in the early hours of the morning, shortly after 1:30 a.m.
In early February 2026, Bulgaria was rocked by a grim discovery that would spiral into one of the country's most disturbing cases in recent memory.
A fatal knife attack took place early this morning in Sofia’s Poduyane district, leaving one person dead and two others seriously injured, according to information from police and emergency services.
Novinite 2025 in Review: A Year That Tested Bulgaria and the World
A Disgraceful Betrayal: Bulgaria's Shameful Entry into Trump's Board of Peace
