Explosion hits another weapons site in Bulgaria
SOFIA: An explosion caused a fire at a weapons storage site in central Bulgaria overnight, local media and officials said on Saturday, the second blaze at a munitions facility in the past few weeks. No one was reported injured in the blaze, which broke out near the village of Tsareva Livada and could be seen lighting up the night sky in videos broadcast locally. “At the moment, the fire is on the…
An explosion at a weapons storage site in central Bulgaria led to a fire overnight, according to local media and officials. This marks the second such incident at a munitions facility in the region over the past few weeks. No injuries were reported as the fire, visible in night sky footage, spread from warehouse to warehouse within the storage base.
Gabrovo regional governor Kristina Sidorova informed journalists about the ongoing blaze. The blaze occurred at a site operated by EMCO, a Bulgarian arms trader whose own facility experienced an explosion last month. EMCO's official informed Reuters of the situation, though Reuters was unable to reach EMCO for further comment. EMCO is owned by Emilian Gebrev, a Bulgarian arms trader who prosecutors allege has been targeted by Russian operatives in the past.
In 2024, Bulgaria issued an arrest warrant for six Russian citizens suspected of involvement in the destruction of EMCO arms depots used to export munitions to Ukraine and Georgia from 2011 to 2020. Prosecutors claimed connections between these blasts in Bulgaria, an attempted poisoning of Gebrev in 2015, and explosions at munitions depots in the Czech Republic in 2014. However, Moscow has denied these accusations.
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