Elin Pelin

The large-scale Saint Sofia development, initially announced in 2014, has been granted the status of priority investment project and will benefit from a number of state-guaranteed incentives for a three-year-project, the state-controlled Invest Bulgaria Agency told BIRN on Tuesday.

Two Afghans who arrived in Bulgaria as accompanied minors but were refused accommodation in the village of Shiroka Laka, were subsequently turned down from other places, media reports suggest.

The two boys, aged under 18, were to move into a care home in Shiroka Laka, a village in Southern Bulgaria, but some locals voiced concerns they might commit crimes.