Devnya

In a remarkable display of vigilance, police officers in Varna thwarted a phone scam by halting an entire bus to warn a potential victim. The incident, which unfolded in Devnya, underscores the dangers of phone scams and the crucial role of law enforcement in preventing financial fraud, as reported by the Ministry of the Interior.

Torrential rain flooded dozens of houses in the Bulgarian town of Devnya late yesterday afternoon. Streets and basements are flooded. In about 40 minutes, the amount that fell was 70 liters per square meter. Volunteers and Civil Defense teams helped the most affected to evacuate their homes.

Dozens of blood tubes of unknown origin have been found thrown near the road junction of the Hemus Highway in Devnya.

The Minister of Economy Emil Karanikol awarded the Class A investment certificate to Agropolychim AD. The amount of the investment amounts to BGN 25,890 million, with 12 new jobs being opened, the press office of the agency announced.

The investment project is related to the extension of the existing holding for liquid ammonia storage.

The construction of the plant of the German company MD Elektronic in Vratsa, where BGN 22 million should be invested and approximately 300 jobs opened, should start next week.

The first sod of the base will be made in the following Monday, the Municipality of Vratsa said, quoted by the regional news agency Media News.

A big fire broke out this morning in Varna. There is a wooden pallet warehouse located on Devnya Street near the railway crossing.

The fire signal was fired around 7:45 am. The fire covered about 1 acre area, with wooden pallets, three cars, a minibus and a bus, boat and jet.

Vasil Koychev, chairperson of Devnya municipal council and leader of the local party structure, has been excluded from Bulgaria's largest ruling party GERB.

The executive commitee of the party decided to exclude him from the party as of Sunday after an investigation of private NOVA TV revealed that Koychev had caused financial damages to the municipality amounting to BGN 70 000.

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.

Germany's HeidelbergCement has agreed to purchase a 45% stake in Italy's Italcementi SpA for EUR 1.67 B from Italmobiliare.

In Bulgaria Italcementi Group owns the cement plants in Devnya and Dimitrovgrad, Devnya Cement and Vulkan Cement, respectively.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov boasted that over 10 000 jobs had been created in plants opened over the past few days in the country.

Speaking Friday in Devnya at the opening of a new production line at the local cement plant, Borisov noted that the new jobs had been created in Burgas, Stara Zagora, and Devnya, according to reports of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.