Strazhitsa

In a disturbing incident in Elena, Bulgaria, a 23-year-old man has been detained after inflicting multiple stab wounds on his 41-year-old girlfriend's head with a pair of scissors. According to reports from BNR citing local police, the victim, who is a citizen of Uzbekistan, was subjected to a brutal attack by her partner during a heated argument fueled by jealousy.

A slight earthquake was registered tonight in the area of ​​Strazhitsa. According to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center, the quake had a magnitude of 2.7 on the Richter scale. Registered at 00:32

A bomb alert stopped the passenger train from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Shumen, learned "24 hours".

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake is registered on the territory of Bulgaria, near Strazhitsa, BGNES reported.

The earthquake is felt at 16.19 AM with an epicenter 6 km southeast of Strazhitsa, 33 km east of Veliko Tarnovo, with a depth of 2 km, the European Seismological Center said.

A 2.1-magnitude earthquake hit the near of Strazhitsa in northern Bulgaria on Sunday morning.

The tremor struck at 6:20 local time (EET), at a depth of 400 km beneath the surface.

It came just a minute before another quake, measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale, was felt in Vrancea in neighbouring Romania.

A 4.2-magnitude quake been registered in north central Bulgaria, seismologists say.

There are no reports of injured people or damaged property.

The quake struck just after midnigt local time on Wednesday, its epicenter being 2 km beneath the surface, 19 km east of Veliko Tarnovo.

Sofia is marking on Sunday the 137thanniversary of its proclamation as capital of Bulgaria.

The decision to declare Sofia as the new capital of Bulgaria was taken shortly after the liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878.

Employees of the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) company found 2.8kg of TNT in a bag near the railway line Strazhitsa - Kesarevo, northeastern Bulgaria.

The railwaymen noticed an abandoned bag, which was found to contain 7 sticks of 400g of TNT equivalent each, according to reports of dariknews.bg.

Czech company Korado Group will invest BGN 4 M in a new production line which will expand the product range of Korado Bulgaria AD.

Thanks to the new equipment, the plant based in the northern Bulgarian town of Strazhitsa will start producing a new item, bathroom radiators.

After the Yantra river overflowed and flooded Bulgarian town of Veliko Tarnovo, more than 300 homes remain under water, Saturday.

The water levels of the Yantra and Belitsa rivers are already decreasing after the floods, however a number of landslides have been activated in the region, Nova Tv informed.