Pernik

The 25th edition of the international festival of masquerade games Surva will take place in the Bulgarian city of Pernik between Friday and Sunday.

A total of 110 groups with a record number of 6400 participants are expected to attend the festival.

A UNESCO committee has inscribed Bulgaria's Surva ('Surova') folk feast on the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, UNESCO announced on Wednesday.

Fifty migrants have been detained near the southwestern town of Pernik, not far from Bulgaria's capital Sofia, local officials say.

District governor Irena Sokolova told Focus News Agency the migrants were found traveling in the carriage of a truck with a Pernik license plate en route to Kyustendil, another town located close to Bulgaria's borders with both Macedonia and Serbia.

Bulgarian authorities detained forty immigrants in the village of Golyamo Buchino near the city of Pernik on Thursday evening.

The origin and identity of the immigrants, who were transported by cars from Sofia, are in the process of being established, private bTV station informs.

Just days before miners' professional day on August 18, Bulgarian supplier GIPS JSC is celebrating on Thursday the 50th anniversary since its gypsum processing plant was set up in the village of Koshava near Vidin, Northwestern Bulgaria.

Sweden-headquartered Trelleborg group said on Wednesday it is making further investment in its Bulgarian unit for advanced liquid silicone rubber (LSR) injection molding solutions.

As many as 21 Bulgarian regions have been placed under Code Orange for Wednesday as extremely high temperatures are expected to sweep the country.

This means most of the 28 regions of the country are bracing for temperatures that could hit 40 degrees.

Three houses fell through the illegal coal mining sites in the Pernik neighborhood Rudnichar Wednesday.

A state of emergency has been issued after the incident.

One of the buildings has been declared unsuitable for living. All residing families have been evacuated and two of them have been accommodated into municipal residences.

Bulgaria's Pernik Municipality seeks a short-term interest-free loan of BGN 5 M from the central budget in order to cope with debts.

The Pernik Municipal Council decided on Monday at an extraordinary meeting that the loan was a life-saving measure to ensure the further development of the municipality.

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.