Bulgarian Red Cross

Nikola Kazakov, Chair of the State Agency for Refugees, has commented on the benefits for Bulgaria from the agreement with the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, adding that similar documents were to be signed with Greece and Romania.

The Bulgarian authorities detained on Tuesday a group of 37 illegal immigrants at the Danube Bridge border checkpoint.

Among the detained people were women, children and a pregnant woman, BGNES news agency reports.

The illegal immigrants were hidden in a TIR truck with a Turkish licence plate, driven by a Romanian citizen.

The Bulgarian Red Cross has joined the emergency appeal launched by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to help the people in Nepal affected by the devastating earthquake on 25 April.

A National Charity Campaign in support of earthquake victims in Nepal has been launched, the Bulgarian Red Cross announced on its website.

The vessel with 14 Ukrainian sailors on board, currently anchored at the Varna port, ASIAN DREAM has issued state of emergency.

People on board now have limited food and water supplies, as reported by NOVA news.

The crew announced that they will abandon the vessel if they don't receive at least basic food supplies immediately.

A man hit by an avalanche in Bulgaria's Pirin Mountain on Wednesday has been retrieved alive from under the snow piles.

Vasil Cholakov, 37, a Bulgarian national living in Sofia, has suffered a chest trauma and has been sent to a medical centre in the town of Bansko, according to the head of the Bulgarian Red Cross Hristo Grigorov, who was on the site.

A huge avalanche has fallen over the right slope of the Pirin mountain near the Baderitsa hut.

After the accident one person has been left under the snow piles, witnesses reported.

The situation in Varna municipality is now under control as announced by Internal Minister Veselin Vouchkov during his visit of the regions affected by the floods on Monday. He was joined by Environmental Minister Ivelina Vassileva and Secretary General to the Ministry of the Interior Svetlozar Lazarov.

The search and rescue operation for three boys who got lost in the Rila Mountain has been temporarily suspended due to the extremely difficult weather conditions.

A part of the rescue team got submerged by snow following an avalanche, according to Hristo Grigorov, President of the Bulgarian Red Cross.

The situation in the regions along the rivers Tundzha and Maritsa in southern Bulgaria slowly returns to normal as the river waters are receding, reports the bTV national channel.

Some villages and towns, are still flooded or are in a state of disaster, while the authorities are dealing with the aftermath of the floods.

BELGRADE - Celebrated Serbian film director and screenwriter Goran Paskaljevic is the winner of the award for humanity in cinematography at the 15th international film festival in Varna, Bulgaria.