Provinces of Bulgaria

The Bulgarian National Revenue Agency has impounded assets operated by firms connected to Tsvetan Vasilev, majority owner of collapsed Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank or KTB).

The shares of a company owning several hotels have been impounded, Pressa daily reported.

The road between Asenovgrad and Smolyan still remains closed both ways due to the new landslide in the region. It is expected that the road will be unblocked by the end of the day.

In order for the rocks after the landslide can be cleared faster, excavators will be working on both sides of the road.

Commission for Consumer Protection in Bulgaria has ordered that the ski track Mechi Chal in mountain resort Chepelare should be closed.

The order has been issues after 28-year old Danail Kanchev from Shumen tragically lost his life after he hit an unsafe concrete block located close to the track.

The Bulgarian government allocated BGN 14 M for addressing the consequences of the heavy snowfall and floods in the past months.

This was decided at the regular meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the government's press service reports.

A 2.6-magnitude earthquake has been registered near Batak, southern Bulgaria, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reports.

The minor tremor occurred at 20:33 local time and had its epicenter 32 km to the south of the town of Pazardzhik, 12 km to the east of Batak, at a depth of 15 km.

No injuries or damages have been reported.

Seven people were arrested early on Tuesday in the Roma neighborhoods of Plovdiv and Pazardzhik for preaching radical Islam on Facebook.

The arrests were made in the Roma districts of Plovdiv, Asenovgrad, and Pazardzhik under the supervision of the prosecuting authority, according to reports of the Focus news agency.

Police in Bulgaria's northeastern Shumen Region have arrested four people suspected of illicit possession of and trading in archaeological artefacts.

As BGNES news outlet reported on Tuesday, police have found 19 marble and stone slabs and sculptures as well as ancient coins and moulds for production of fake coins at the homes of the suspects.

Over the course of the past evening, massive rocks have fallen on the road to the Asenova Krepost ( Asen's Fortress) near Bulgaria's second largest town Plovdiv. The dangerous section of the road is 200 meters below the fortress itself and is 20 meters long.

As Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova was going over a regular inspection of the works of clearing away the landslide remnants on the road between Asenovgrad and Smolyan, she almost got hit by faling rocks on Thursday evening, NOVA news reported.

Shortly after 7 pm, Pavlova decided to check the pace of work on site, but barely managed to escape a further incident herself.

A 2.8-magnitude earthquake was registered in western Bulgaria Thursday evening, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).

The earthquake was registered at 6:56 p.m. on Thursday, with an epicenter located 20km south of Samokov, 35km northeast of Blagoevgrad, and 61km south of Sofia, at a depth of 2km.