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Two people were killed and five were injured in a car accident at the Hemus highway entrance of Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna, said the first aid Varna chief Maya Rasheva. 

Bulgarian police is looking for a German citizen who went missing in Varna two weeks ago, according to the Interior Ministry website. 

The 28-year-old Lars Joachim Mittank, from Berlin, was last seen at the Varna airport on July 8. 

The real estate deals in Bulgaria in H1 2014 grew by 64%,year-on-year, shows an analysis of the ERA Bulgaria real estate company. 

Due to the bank panic in June, buyers showed increased interest in buying homes in Sofia. 

In Varna and Burgas, however, the deals with Russian citizens dropped by 35% in H1 2014, year-on-year.

The repair works in Bulgaria’s Varna Asparuhovo district continue after the devastating floods that hit the Black Sea city in June.

The district mayor Yordan Nikolov has told Focus news agency that over 90% of the damages in the area have already been recovered.

Passenger bus carrying about 50 children from Belarus, has overturned Saturday on the road between Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna and Ruse.

The bus has fallen into a ditch, fortunately no children were injured, BGNES reports. The accident occurred near the village of Bazan at about 7 am, Saturday.

One of the largest Russian touroperators, Neva, went bankrupt and said it terminates its activities, reports ITAR-TASS. 

According to Irina Tyurina, press secretary of the Russian tourist industry association, currently there were around 6000 customers of the agency abroad. 

The administration in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna is giving BGN 300 to each of the 405 households affected by the devastating floods in the Asparuhovo district.

The definitive list of all the disaster victims has been drawn up already, Bulgarian National Radio informed.

Residents of the flood hit Varna district Asparuhovo are planning to protest on Monday the forceful evacuation, reports the Bulgarian National Radio. 

The event is organised in Facebook under the slogan “We are here and we will not let anyone be forcefully taken out of their home”. 

Bulgaria's Economy Ministry expects a 4% increase of number of Russian tourists in 2014, said deputy economy minister Branimir Botev, quoted by the Cherno More agency. 

“We are seeing an increase of tourist numbers – not only from Russia, but also from Ukraine,” Botev said. 

The “Officers'” beach in Varna will remain closed at least until Monday, reports Darik Radio.

“This is when the test results of the sea water will come out,” said Dr. Veselina Bozhilova of the Regional Health Inspectorate in Varna.