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Authorities have declared a state of emergency in the northeastern Bulgarian village of Hitrino, national media report.

"There is a genuine disaster in the village," Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Georgi Kostov has said.

"From today's point of view, the decision on [Saturday] for Hitrino to be [fully] evacuated is a right one."

Emergency teams are to begin draining the dangerous materials out of several tanks that derailed in Hitrino in northeastern Bulgaria on Saturday morning.

Seven people died after one of the cisterns exploded. Twenty-nine were injured, while dozens of families lost their home after the blast left buildings in a 300m perimeter completely ravaged.

The future of urban hospitality is on display at the Benaki Museum's Pireos Street through December 4.

At least 67 people were killed by the collapse of the work platform at a power plant cooling tower that was under construction, in China, Thursday, state media reported. Two others were injured and one worker was missing.

A total of 10 price offers have been offered for the design and construction of 9.3 km of the Hemus highway - the section between Yablanitsa and Boaza.

The cheapest offer is for BGN 5.4 M/km.

The indicative value of the public procurement offer is BGN 80 M, VAT excluded, reported the road agency.

The construction of Sofia's third subway line has started, reported bTV.

Construction works will be entirely underground and no re-routing of traffic will be necessary. The tunnel to be built will be 850 metres long.

After a few months, the construction of the eighth subway station will start as well. It will be located on Vladimit Vazov Blvd.

The angle of an 11th century mosque minaret near the eastern Turkish province of Elazığ has drawn comparisons to Pisa's famous leaning tower.      

Three skyscrapers will be built in Sofia over the next few years.

The three buildings will be located on Tsarigradsko Shose Blvd, near Pirogov Hospital and near Paradise Mall.

Hundreds of homes and streets were flooded in Messolonghi, Preveza, Nafpaktos, Patra and other parts of Western Greece on Saturday due to heavy rains.

In Messolonghi in particular, local authorities had to bring out earth-moving machines to build an embankment that would help divert floodwater from the local technical college after a pumping station nearby was damaged by lightning.

One of Turkey’s mega projects, the Eurasia Tunnel, which allows automobiles transit access between the Asian and European sides of Istanbul under the Bosporus strait, will be transited by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in an official test drive on Saturday. President Erdogan will drive from Europe to Asia through the tunnel in his official car.