Archar

A second round of by-elections in several settlements in the country is being held today.

In Strazhitsa municipality, citizens will choose between Yordan Tsonev and Georgi Byanov. Both were nominated by initiative committees.

Ivan Sakov (GERB) and Iskra Lefterova Hristova (nominated by an initiative committee) stand in the Blagoevgrad village of Tserovo.

The Special Prosecutor's Office and the Directorate-General for Combating Organised Crime are investigating an organised crime group involved in usury, said the press office of the Appellate Prosecutor's Office.

Police officers found the two dead bodies near the village of Archar in north-west Bulgaria, while four other migrants, including children, are missing, Commissioner Dimiter Chorbadjiev of the Rousse Regional Border Police Directorate said on Monday.

The bodies of two migrants have been found in the Danube River, near the village of Archar, northwestern Bulgaria, police say.

Most of the Bulgarian section of the Danube serves as a natural border with Romania.

Authorities are now looking for "two boys, two girls and a man" who reportedly also drowned while trying to cross into Romania.