Venelin Petkov, a reporter for bTV in Bulgaria, said that three of the wounded were in critical condition.

CNN: SHARE THIS

This March it was the turn of the Bulgarian interior minister, Rumen Petkov, to lose his job, this time under heavy pressure from Brussels.

ECONOMIST: A survey of EU enlargement: Trust me | The

So did the interior minister, Rumen Petkov, after reports that a drug gang had obtained secret internal documents from his ministry, and that illegal booze producers had traded money for favours from a senior crime-fighter.

ECONOMIST: Bulgaria, Romania and the EU