Disaster

A truck carrying agricultural workers collided with a milk tanker in the Aegean province of Manisa early on July 6, killing 15 passengers and wounding two.

The truck was carrying a group of mostly female agricultural workers to a vineyard to pick fresh grape leaves. Thirteen women who were heading to the grape field are among the dead.

Two people have died during a fire in a residential building located in the very center of Bulgaria's capital Sofia, as reported by Darik radio.

At approximately 7pm Friday a signal has been received on the emergency number 112 stating that an apartment is burning in a building close to the National Opera and Ballet between the streets Rakovski and Moskovska.

A worker has died after the Erma Reka mine collapsed in Southern Bulgaria, the public broadcaster BNT reports.

Another has been injured in the incident that occurred Wednesday night.

Zarko Hadzhiev, Mayor of the adjacent Erma Reka village, told the Bulgarian National Radio on Thursday that the victim as an excavator, and not a miner.

At the presentation of a Manual on Emergency Situations in the Case of Floods, compiled by YUCOM, the non-governmental Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, some speakers said state institutions discriminated against certain flood victims and that the distribution of aid after the floods was unfair.

Austria's Graz holds a day of mourning for the three people killed by an SUV driver on Saturday in the city center.
A memorial service was held on Saturday for the three people who died in the accident.
According to reports of Austrian daily Der Standard, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio, the youngest victim is a 5-year-old of Bulgarian origin.

French finance minister Michel Sapin said on Thursday it would be a total catastrophe for Greece if Athens left the eurozone but that France was doing all it could to find a deal.

"We will fight till the end to find an agreement with Greece," Sapin said on France Info radio.

A Council of State board has halted the execution of a cabinet decision on rapid expropriation of the land for Istanbul?s third airport project to the north of the city, determining there was no reasoning of the ?defense of the country? in the case.
 

A mobile phone video recording shows the dramatic moments experienced by hundreds of movie-goers when the roof of a cinema collapsed while the movie was still showing. Six people were taken to hospital and dozens more were injured.

European aircraft maker Airbus believes the United States will be the biggest customer for its A400M military transport plane, despite a fatal crash involving one of them during a test flight last month.

Four persons died and two others were seriously injured early on Friday in a traffic accident that happened close to the Nais Hotel, near Nis, southern Serbia.

Neither of the two injured persons - one of whom is a Turkish citizen - have life-threatening wounds.