Varna

The municipal administration of the flood-stricken city of Varna is calling for volunteers to continue clearing of the area during the workweek.

"Due to the start of the workweek, the number of volunteers involved in the cleaning of the Asparuhovo district has dropped dramatically," the municipal press center says.

Dozens of German students came to the assistance of the victims in Bulgaria's flood ravaged port city of Varna.

The students are among the many local and foreign volunteers helping in the destroyed district of Asparuhovo, Bulgarian private BTV reported, Monday.

The official mourning to Monday took place as Bulgaria continued the clean-up operation after last week’s deadly floods in the north-eastern cities of Varna, Veliko Turnovo and Dobrich and more of the 14 victims were buried.

Varna Mayor Ivan Portnih has said that the local authorities are issuing orders for forced evacuation as some people refuse to leave their homes.

In a Sunday interview for the Bulgarian National Television, Portnih informed that the local authorities had prepared for emergency evacuations due to the refusal of people living in dangerous buildings to leave them.

Two children are still missing after the floods ravaged Varna's Asparuhovo district, another person has been reported missing, too.

So far, 11 people have died as a result of the torrential rains in Bulgaria's port city of Varna. For the past day, firefighters responded to more than 120 calls in the Varna region, 54 of them concerned the Asparuhovo district.

Another victim of the floods in Bulgaria's port city of Varna was found in the channel under the Asparuhov bridge, Friday night.

The unprecedented floods in the Varna district of Asparuhovo claimed 11 lives so far, including two children.

The last victim of the floods is a female and is yet to be identified, Nova Tv reports.

Power supply to flood-hit northeastern Bulgaria is returning to normal, according to Radoslav Tsvetkov from power distributor Energo-Pro.

In a Friday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), Tsvetkov made clear that some 7400 customers in Varna, Dobrich and Gorna Oryahovitsa still had no electricity.

The European Commission is ready to mobilize all available instruments in the EU to support the people affected by the floods in Bulgaria, according to EC President Jose Barroso.

Teams of Sofia Municipality in Dolni Bogrov are monitoring the Lesnovska river that overflowed in 2005, Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova told reporters.

Hours after tragedy struck in Varna, NGOs Bulgaria's Red Cross (BRC) and volunteers organised donation campaigns and volunteer teams to aid the flood victims in Asparuhovo. 

There are two official donation campaigns – one of BRC and one of the Bulgarian Donations Forum and Nova TV national channel.