PRESS DIGEST - Bulgaria - Aug 22
SOFIA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - These are some of the main stories in Bulgarian newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
-- huge fire which devastated historic warehouses in the Tobacco Town precinct of Plovdiv has sparked a wave of public outrage in Bulgaria's second largest city. Hundreds of protesters blamed local authorities for not doing their jobs and said that the fire was in fact an act of arson (Trud, Standart, 24 Chasa, Monitor)
-- Mayor of two Bulgarian villages in the southern Harmanli municipality has issued a state of emergency on account of the huge fires in the fields nearby (Trud, Standart, Monitor)
-- Port of Varna, Bulgaria's largest Black Sea port, reported a 6.5 million levs ($3.75 million) net profit in the first half of 2016, compared to 7.1 million levs profit in the same period last year, the company said
($1 = 1.7341 leva)
