Royak is a village in
Dalgopol Municipality
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The municipality embraces a territory of with a p ...
, in
Varna Province
Varna Province (), formerly known as Varna okrug, is a province in eastern Bulgaria, one of the 28 Bulgarian provinces. It comprises 12 municipalities with a population of 494,216 as of April 2016.[Bulgaria
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.
Nursing home fire
On 22 November 2021, a fire at a local nursing home killed nine of its 58 elderly residents, while the rest were evacuated. An investigation was launched into the cause of the fire, although the Interior Ministry stated that the flames “started from the roof of the building.”
A three-day
national mourning
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was declared in the country in memory of the fire's victims and the forty-six people killed a day later in a
bus crash
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at
Bosnek
Bosnek ( ) is a village in western Bulgaria, located in Pernik Municipality of Pernik Province.
It is known as the gateway for tourism into the karstic landscape of the Vitosha massif area. The village is downstream from a famous spring, called ...
,
Pernik Province
Pernik Province is a province in western Bulgaria, neighbouring Serbia. Its main city is Pernik, and other municipalities are Breznik, Kovachevtsi, Radomir, Tran, and Zemen.
Demographics
Pernik province had a population of 133,750 accordi ...
.
Approximately a month after the fire, on 21 December 2021, four youths were given the Presidential Medal of Honor by
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Rumen Radev
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Radev previously served as higher commander of the Bulgarian Air Force. He won the 2016 Bulgarian p ...
for their efforts to save the nursing home's residents from the flames.
See also
*
List of villages in Bulgaria
This is a list of villages in Bulgaria by province.
* List of villages in Blagoevgrad Province
* List of villages in Burgas Province
* List of villages in Dobrich Province
* List of villages in Gabrovo Province
* List of villages in Haskovo Provin ...
References
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Villages in Varna Province