Bulgaria: 3 Confirmed Dead after the Floods in Tsarevo

On the day of Unification, Bulgaria is united by the tragedy that befell the people of the Southern Black Sea coast. Today is a day of mourning in Tsarevo. The waters took three victims, one person is still being searched for. After the water hell - destroyed roads, flooded houses and hotels, problems with power supply. Tsarevo Municipality is recruiting volunteers.

Nadezhda was among the evacuees from Arapya last night, along with her husband, son and their pet.

Nadezhda Yordanova: "We experienced a huge nightmare, a horror, I have never seen such water in my life. My water was up to my waist. All the time we were sitting there, we prayed to God to save us, to survive, to stay alive".

Drago Vladov: "If it had happened at night, there would have been many victims, in my opinion. The problem here on Arapya is that there were a lot of caravans and a lot of campers that were in the river bed and just when the water came, the river pushed all the caravans, cars and everything into the sea. Unprecedented water horror" - that's how the mayor of Tsarevo defined the hours that had passed.

Georgi Lapchev, mayor of Tsarevo municipality: "Fortunately, last night the only calls to the municipality's duty phone were from volunteers who wanted to sign up. Unfortunately, we have made sacrifices and this is something that I cannot swallow, but now the most important thing is that everyone is calm".

The flood tore away settlements, destroyed infrastructure, demolished bridges.

Nikolay Nikolaev, Director PBZN-Burgas: "Where there is a road, it is flooded, we arrive here on the spot with high-terrain equipment, an amphibious vehicle from the fire department in Burgas. There are 4 amphibians from the volunteer...