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Police Friday made a serious dent in a crime ring that has stolen at least seven trucks in central Greece, with the arrest of four people while another four are being sought.

The Finance Ministry is bringing to Parliament a clause that will allow for the return of vehicle license plates with the payment of road tax by the month for owners who chose to hand over their plates to avoid paying the annual levy.

Officers of the border police department in the Bulgarian town of Tsarevo detained on Thursday 37 foreigners who had illegally entered into the country.

The officers uncovered the migrants when they stopped a Ford Transit van bearing British licence plates for inspection at the bridge over Karaagach river.

The car used in Ankara blast that killed 27 military personnel and one civilian on Feb. 17 was stolen from a vehicle rental company in the western Turkish province of ?zmir around two months ago before being sent to Diyarbak?r, according to reports.

The traffic police in the Bulgarian capital has temporarily suspended the registration and renewal of registration of vehicles on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The suspension is the result of a technical issue experienced by the firm responsible for the manufacture of the licence plates, which hampers their delivery.

Bulgarian authorities detained twelve illegal immigrants after a police operation involving a car pursuit in the city of Burgas.

Officers from the fifth district department noticed a car bearing a Sofia licence plate to be speeding on one of the city's boulevards.

Three people, including a Bulgarian national, have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the 71 refugees found dead in a truck on an Austrian motorway.

According to reports of Austrian police, the truck was owned by a Bulgarian national of Lebanese origin.
The other two arrested in Hungary were drivers.

Two persons died on Monday in a traffic accident on the highway near Pecinci, northwest of Belgrade, while at least eight others were injured.

According to initial information, a van with Croatian license plates and a truck collided.

Bulgarian authorities detained a group of 26 Syrian refugees in the district of Kyustendil near the border with Serbia early on Friday.

There were four children among the refugees, who were traveling in a minibus bearing a licence plate from Kuystendil, private bTV station reports.

Two Turkish citizens died, while another person was injured in a traffic accident that took place around 07:15 CET on Thursday on the Nis-Pirot road.