Snowstorms wreak chaos in Bulgaria

Snow paralyse Eastern Bulgaria. The snow reached 30 - 70 sm at different places, the movement is restricted and in some regions are blocked. There are a lot of villages without water, electricity and with a little food. The temperatures of the air reached -15 celsius and in that fact some of the big rivers along the country are frozen. The people in the Bulgarian border town of Svilengrad, some 260 eastern from the capital of Sofia, have never seen winter like this from 1982 year. The town is located some 15 km from the Bulgaria - Turkish border, near Kapitan Andrevo border-crossing point on January 10,11,12, 2017

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