Bulgaria's Interior Ministry

A total of 120 Syrian nationals hiding in a TIR truck were arrested upon entering Sofia in a police operation held early on Monday.

The refugees were taken to the 8th Regional Police Department in Sofia.

According to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio, police have intercepted a human smuggling scheme used to take refuges from the border to Sofia.

Six cars on average get stolen in Sofia every day, according to statistics of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry.

Nearly 1000 cars were stolen in Sofia since the beginning of 2015.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry will try to defuse tensions in the village of Garmen, which escalated over the weekend.

Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece are to sign Monday an agreement on a common contact center and joint border patrols.

The interior ministers of Turkey and Greece are to arrive in Sofia for the signing ceremony, according to reports of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry, as cited by dnevnik.bg.

Hungarian investigators have found a highly inflammable substance in a bag purportedly containing a homemade bomb which was found on a bus traveling from Prague to Varna.

The bus had a majority of Bulgarian passengers and a Bulgarian driver. The suspicious package was found while the vehicle had stopped in Budapest. No-one was injured.

A news bulletin has failed to begin on time at TV7 after a police officer's refusal to leave the studio.

Earlier on Wednesday, a bailiff entered the headquarters of the Bulgarian national private channel to seize its equipment. Reportedly, the ground for her actions is a "litigation".

Milen Penev, who heads the Border Directorate at Bulgaria's Interior Ministry, has been dismissed, media reports suggest.

This was first announced by public broadcaster BNR, though the Ministry of Interior is yet to confirm.

On the first day of the visit to the US, Rumyana Bachvarova, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, and senior representatives of US law enforcement authorities signed an agreement in the sphere of border security.

A sketch of the 5-year-old boy whose body was discovered in a suitcase near the village of Pasarel, Western Bulgaria was released by Bulgaria's Interior Ministry on Sunday.

The boy is about 112 cm tall, with dark brown hair and brown eyes, police say. Currently they are unable to establish its identity.

The district directorate of Bulgaria's Interior Ministry announced that the police in Kyustendil found the bodies of two men and a woman, who had been declared missing.

The corpses of 80-year-old man from Pernik and his 40-year-old son were found in the vicinity of the village of Dozhdevitsa, daily Sega reports.