Social Assistance Directorate

A six-year-old boy is in the Razgrad hospital after being severely beaten by his stepfather.

The child was beaten a week ago in the village of Hersovo, where he lived with his mother and stepfather. The mayor reported his condition, as the boy was locked up at home so that the bruises and swelling on his body would not be noticed.

Police search for 7-year-old Maria Hristova Sedmakova and her 39-year-old Hristo Hristov Sedmakov, the press center of the Interior Ministry announced.

According to the mother, she saw them on July 27 in the Social Assistance Directorate - Slatina, both of them carrying identification papers.

The little girl is about 130 cm high, with dark brown eyes and long brown hair.

The prosecutor's office in Burgas has ordered the inspection after journalist publications about the violence against children in a kindergarten on the part of an educator, the state indictment announced.

Only 24 houses in the Roma neighborhood of Kremikovtsi in the southwestern village of Garmen are legal, according to the results of joint inspections of power distributor CEZ, Bugaria's National Construction Control Directorate, and the Social Assistance Directorate.