Subdivisions of Bulgaria

In Slanchev Bryag, a tourist city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Cost, started a removal of all illegal moving constructions, reported BNR.

On the action, which started today, came the Minister of Tourism Nikolina Angelkova.

It started with a demolition of the famous beach bar "Bikini".

A 30-year old man from the town of Belogradchik has been arrested for the murder of a girl, aged 3, BNR reported.

The man lived on marital grounds with the child's mother in the village of Slana Bara, Vidin region. The paramedical team which visited the address yesterday alarmed the police.

Some 100 companies will take part in the 240th edition of the traditional Spring Fair, unveiled in the town of Targovishte today.

For a first time craftsmen and producers of Bulgarian household goods will demonstrate old manufacturing techniques, BNR reported.

The half part of Sofia remains without hot water from today to May 19, reported BNR.

The reason is a renovation in the heating ducts which deflated in winter and people in many regions were without heat in their homes.

A car exploded in the village of Yahinovo in the Dupnitsa municipality, the press centre of Kyustendil Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior announced, quoted by Focus News Agency.

Heating supply has been restored to the neighbourhoods of Mladost - 1, 1A, 2, 3, 4, Studentski grad, Vitosha, Darvenitsa, Musagenitsa and Malinova dolina.

These were the districts concerned by the technical fault of the heating pipeline along Tsarigradsko shose Blvd.

Heating supply will be restored to the buildings at higher terrain in parts of Mladost 4 and Studentski grad.

A number of neighborhoods remain cut off the heating grid for days in Bulgaria, capital after technical faults, amid controversy over what caused the breakdown.

Lyulin (4-5) and Nadezhda (3-6) are affected after successive breakdowns over the past 24 hours.

Heating supply will be halted again on Wednesday in the neighbourhoods of Mladost, Musagenitsa, Vitosha, Darvenitsa and Studentski grad, announced the management of heating utility Toplofikatsiya Sofia during a hearing in front of the Economics Committee with the Sofia Municipal Council.

Sofia's heating utility Toplofikatsiya has said it is still working to restore supply in several densely populated neighborhoods.

Its announcement follows a statement that heating was restored everywhere in the Bulgarian capital, with disruptions possible in Studentski Grad due to an incident with the grid near Tsarigradsko shose.

36 Iraqis who fled from the refugee camp in Harmanli have been detained by the Regional Prosecutor's Office in General Toshevo. They attempted to leave the territory of Bulgaria in the direction of Romania.

They have been indicted on criminal charges.