Kaspichan

In Sofia, investigations are ongoing into the accident at the Central Railway Station, where a locomotive collided with a passenger train. One theory being considered is that the collision occurred because the driver suddenly fell ill.

A driver is without a license for 3-month and owes 1 000 leva for driving at the opposite of the Hemus highway. He appealed the punishment to the Shumen district court, but the magistrates confirmed the sanction set by the traffic police.

Police officers found four bodies in a house in Kaspichan. The bodies found are of an elderly family and their two children.

Criminalists are already working on clarifying the circumstances of the case.

Bulgarian police have detained six people dealing in production and sale of fake identity documents, the Ministry of the Interior said on Monday.

Bulgarian authorities detained 27 foreigners after stopping a cargo transit train for inspection at the railway station in the town of Kaspichan on Sunday evening.

Prior to stopping the train, workers at the railway station in the town of Provadia submitted a signal after noticing people in one of the wagons of the cargo train.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has vowed that at least half of the Hemus motorway will be completed by the end of the term in office of the current government.

Speaking Monday at the official opening of the 5 km motorway section connecting Belokopitovo to Kaspichan, Borisov said that a tender for the construction of a new 60 km section was about to be launched.

The Belokopoitovo - Kaspichan section of the Hemus motorway and the biggest road junction in Bulgaria, Belokopitovo, open for traffic on Monday.

The motorway section is 4.898 km long and the road junction will provide a connection to the roads Ruse-Varna and Koritna-Belokopitovo.

Three citizens of Afghanistan have been detained at the train station in Kaspichan. The arrest happened Sunday after the three people entered Bulgaria illegally in an international cargo train, as reported by BGNES.

The Bulgarian cabinet allocated on Thursday BGN 500 000 for archaeological and restoration works at the first Bulgarian capital of Pliska.

This was announced after a meeting between Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Regional Minister Lilyana Pavlova, Director of the National Historical Museum (NIM) Bozhidar Dimitrov, the mayor of the nearby town of Kaspichan and archaeologists.

Bulgaria's caretaker government is to decide Wednesday on allocating state funding of up to BGN 750 M for projects affected by an EU funds freeze under operational programs Environment and Regional Development.

The decision is to help cope with the crisis caused by the blocked EU funding.