Pazardzhik Province

Code Yellow for thunderstorms and heavy rainfalls has been declared for three Bulgarian districts - Pazardzhik, Smolyan and Blagoevgrad, on Saturday.

This was announced by the National Institute for Hydrology and Meteorology, quoted by BNR.

Local heavy rainfalls are also in the forecast with precipitation quantities exceeding 15-30 liters per square meter in some areas.

The culmination of the events marking the 141st anniversary of the April Uprising will take place today at the historical site Oborishte near the town of Panagyurishte. Parliament President Dimitar Glavchev will take part in the commemorative meeting.

Problems with the border system on the Turkish side have stopped the movement of trucks leaving Bulgaria through the Kapitan Andreevo-Kapikule border crossing, the Road Infrastructure Agency says.

All trucks weighing more than 12 tons will now be redirected through to the border point at Lesovo.

Seven Bulgarian regions have been placed under a Code Yellow warning over heavy showers on Tuesday, the national weather service has said.

The alert covers Blagoevgrad, Kyustendil, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Smolyan, Sofia-region and Sofia-city (areas adjacent to the capital).

Downpours are expected to reach 35 liters per sqm.

Police officers from the Bulgarian village of Lesichovo in the region of Pazardzhik detained 23 illegal migrants on Trakia motorway on Thursday.

The group was detected in the area between the interchange at the village of Kalugerovo and the overpass for the village of Shtarkovo.

 The court case against 14 defendants charged with spreading the ideas of the Islamic State (IS) group and inciting jihad is to be launched on Thursday in Pazardzhik.

All the defendants are from Southern Bulgarian towns and cities and were apprehended in the Roma neighborhoods of Plovdiv, Pazardzhik, Smolyan, and Asenovgrad in specialized operations.

Bulgarian copper mining and processing company Assarel Medet has won the 2015 Investor of the Year award of the government's investment promotion agency, capital.bg has reported.

The district court in Bulgaria's second-biggest city Plovdiv is to launch the case against Ivan Evstatiev, the mayor of the town of Strelcha who is facing rape charges.

The case was assigned to Plovdiv by Bulgaria's last-instance judicial institution, the Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS), after 15 judges in a row withdrew from the Pazardzhik District Court.

A regional court in Panagyurishte (Central Bulgaria) ruled on Tuesday that Ivan Evstatiev, the former mayor of the town of Strelcha should remain in custody.

Evstatiev is charged with the rape of a 16-year-old girl, and the court believes there is evidence he could hide or commit another crime.

There is an imminent danger for the garbage from the landfill near Pazardzhik to reach up to the inter-city road.