Ministry of the Interior

A bizarre and unsettling message sent to mobile phones by the BG-ALERT early warning system startled Bulgarians from all walks of life.

The parliamentary group of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance is scheduled to meet on Tuesday.

The session will commence with a speech from the leader of the main opposition party, Stefanos Kasselakis.

A 4-year-old girl died after an accident in Pleven region, the Ministry of the Interior reports. The accident happened around 21:35 last night on a third-class road after the village of Opanec in the direction of the town of Dolna Mitropolia.

The 30-year-old driver of the car in which the child was traveling lost control, the car left the roadway and hit a roadside tree.

In an interview with RIA Novosti, he said that this is more than in all of 2022, when 4.3 thousand people refused their Russian passports. At the same time, in the year of the invasion of Ukraine, the number of people who want to renounce Russian citizenship became a record for three years. In 2020, there were 3.8 thousand such people, and in 2021 - four thousand, the Moscow Times reported.

81 illegal migrants were detained in Bulgaria by the police today, the Ministry of the Interior informed.

A car with 17 migrants collided with a taxi on the Ring Road in the capital's "Dragalevtsi" quarter, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced. 10 of the migrants were slightly injured and were taken to a hospital by 7 ambulances. They had limb injuries, were dehydrated, exhausted, but no one was seriously injured or died. 4 migrants were taken to the VMA hospital.

The Chairman of the Committee on Internal Security and Public Order and the Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance held a meeting with the Minister of Finance Asen Vassilev and the Deputy Minister of the Interior Stoyan Temelakiev regarding the financial issues related to the activities of the departmental committee for disaster relief and accidents.

UPDATED: Two people died in the floods in Tsarevo, the Ministry of the Interior announced. This was confirmed by the mayor of the city, Georgi Lapchev.

Another person is missing and is being sought by emergency services.

Additional protection has been assigned to Vasil Bozhkov and his family, announced Georgi Gatev - the lawyer of the gambling businessman. This happened with a prosecutor's decree, after Bozhkov himself requested a few months ago to be guarded.

Bulgaria's Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is resigning, Petar Todorov himself announced on the National Radio.