Strandzha

Starting with tomorrow, February 17, Western Bulgaria is set to bask in the warmth of a sunny day, a welcome respite from the winter chill. However, the eastern part of the country is not as fortunate, as cloudy skies loom overhead, unleashing intermittent rain showers upon the region. Accompanying this atmospheric divide is a light to moderate northerly wind, gently caressing the land.

On the day of Unification, Bulgaria is united by the tragedy that befell the people of the Southern Black Sea coast. Today is a day of mourning in Tsarevo. The waters took three victims, one person is still being searched for. After the water hell - destroyed roads, flooded houses and hotels, problems with power supply. Tsarevo Municipality is recruiting volunteers.

A day of mourning in Tsarevo in memory of the victims of the water disaster. Two victims have been confirmed so far. There is also information about three more people missing. As a sign of sympathy, the celebrations for September 6 have been canceled in Burgas and Primorsko.

Two people died in the floods in Tsarevo, the city's mayor told BNT. Two more people are being sought, he added.

Earlier, a search was launched for three people swept away by tidal waves.

It became clear that two of the missing were a woman and her child, who were swept away with their car on a collapsed bridge.

Completely cut out because of the destroyed bridges are Ahtopol, Varvara, Sinemorets and Rezovo. This was made clear by a meeting of the municipal crisis headquarters in Tsarevo with the participation of Burgas Regional Governor Plamen Yanev.

UPDATED: Two people died in the floods in Tsarevo, the Ministry of the Interior announced. This was confirmed by the mayor of the city, Georgi Lapchev.

Another person is missing and is being sought by emergency services.

Sotirios Gkaintatzis danced across burning coals, his stomping bare feet raising sparks and puffs of smoke as he held aloft an icon of Saints Constantine and Helen.

Gkaintatzis is the leader of a group of "anastenaria" - the devotees of St. Constantine who celebrate these centuries-old rites in a smattering of small villages near Thessaloniki, in northeastern Greece.

Border police detained 50 migrants from Syria on the main road from Malko Tarnovo to Burgas to the village of Krushevets.

The migrants are mostly young men, among the detainees there are also women and small children.

"Northwestern Bulgaria, the area around Sakar - Strandzha, the area around Kraishte and the Central Balkan Mountains - these are the regions where traditionally the processes of depopulation are observed ", told BNR Assoc. Prof.

A partial state of emergency has been declared in the village of Kosti in the south-eastern Bulgarian district of Bourgas on February 2.

40 houses and their yards and ground floors have been flooded. The streets looked like rivers.

At around 11.30 pm last night, the water started coming from the Veleka River, which overflowed as a result of the rains.