Ivan Vitanov

Bulgaria's Minister of Environment and Water, Neno Dimov, has resigned and been charged with deliberate mismanagement of a water crisis. He faces further grilling over a scandal concerning transports of scrap from Italy.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov accepted his resignation on Friday. Dimov stepped down after being arrested on Thursday.

Another major accident left the inhabitants of the Pernik districts of Iztok, Moshino and Teva, as well as the villages of Lyulin and Golemo Buchino, without water, and the water supply was stopped late last night due to a leak in the neighborhood of Moshino.