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Maya Manolova, a former socialist MP and one-time Deputy Parliament Speaker, has assumed her duties as the National Ombudsman of Bulgaria.

At a ceremony also attended by Orthodox Church Members, she has taken over from Kostantin Penchev.

The quality of training and preparation of border police officers in Bulgaria has become extremely low over the past years, a former border police chief said on Tuesday.

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva expressed no doubt that the recent death of an Afghan migrant near the country's border with Turkey had occurred by accident.

Last week, an Afghan migrant was killed near the town of Sredets after being hit from a ricocheted bullet, which had been fired as a warning shot by a border police officer.

Forensic examination results expected to establish how an Afghan migrant died near Bulgaria's border with Turkey last week are to be announced on Monday.

Police say a bullet that a border officer fired in the air as a warning sign rebounded off a bridge hitting a 25-year-old man who died from his wounds as emergency teams were fighting for his lie.

Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev on Friday called for a rapid joint European response to the roots of the continuing migration crisis to prevent "tragic incidents" like the shooting death of an illegal migrant at the country's border with Turkey.

The shooting death of a migrant near Bulgaria's border with Turkey is showing once again the need of a common policy on the security of European Union borders, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva has said.

A bullet fired as a warning to a group of migrants near Bulgaria's border with Turkey has ricocheted off a bridge, claiming the life of one of the migrants hiding under it, sources say.