BAku-APA. Floods caused by heavy rains killed at least three people and broke bridges and dams in southeastern Bulgaria on Saturday morning, officials said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Two victims, women at 69 and 21 years respectively, were drowned in their cars when a huge amount of water flooded the road from Burgas to Sozopol, Burgas municipality said on its website.
Rescue teams found the third victim of the floods, a 27-year-old man, in a caravan near the nearby village of New Panicharevo, the Ministry of Interior said in a press release.
Water also broke two bridges over Ropotamo River and the wall of a dam near Dimitrovgrad, flooded Primorsko airport, and dragged into the sea 50 boats from the fishing village south of Burgas.
On June 20, downpour-triggered floods killed 12 people in the Black Sea Port of Varna, and in late April, a swollen river swept away a car with a four-member family on board in southeastern Bulgaria.
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