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Bulgaria's weather service has issued an alert for snowfall and heavy winds in Eastern Bulgaria.

Fifteen of the country's twenty-eight regions are affected. These include Gabrovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Ruse, Shumen, Targovishte, Razgrad, Silistra, Dobrich, Varna, Burgas, Sliven, Yambol, Stara Zagora, Haskovo and Kardzhali.

A 5-6 magnitude quake hit Vrancea county in Romania early Wednesday and was felt across Bulgaria, seismologists and media report.

There are no reports of injured people after the quake.

The Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre measured its epicenter at a depth of 98 km beneath the surface, 148 km north of the capital Bucharest and 8 km west of Nereju.

Three policemen and four protesters suffered injuries after violent clashes broke out the rally in Radnevo, the Bulgarian interior ministry said on Thursday.

Around 2,000 people joined the protest on Wednesday evening, following an incident in which four men of Roma origin assaulted three Bulgarians in a street row on Monday.

The Bulgarian government decided to allocate slightly over BGN 5.1 M for the purchase of equipment to be used by the specialised police forces and the gendarmerie.

This was announced by the deputy chief secretary of the interior ministry Georgi Abadzhiev at a briefing on Friday.

Bulgarian Prime Minister and leader of the largest ruling party GERB, Boyko Borisov, proposed on Monday to revoke a controversial draft ban on beach camping, which had been tentatively adopted by the Bulgarian parliament two weeks ago.

Bulgarian police have detained a man suspected of making a false bomb threat that had led to extra security measures at Sofia International Airport on Wednesday night, the Ministry of the Interior said on Saturday.

Bulgarian authorities have been conducting large-scale inspections of petrol stations over the weekend.

As of Sunday, authorities prevented the distribution of nearly 29 000 litres of fuel, the interior ministry's press service informs.

Petrol stations in Sofia, Varna, Burgas, Pleven and Harmanli were shut down for selling low quality fuel.