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Cluster of mystery deaths in western Bulgarian mountains confounds police
Six deaths in western Bulgaria involved gunshot wounds and fire damage; authorities consider murder-suicide but unclear motives and delayed reports fuel speculation.
- This past week, authorities found six dead across Western Stara Planina after three bodies were discovered at the Petrohan lodge on February 2 and three later in a camper near Okolchitsa Peak.
- Ivaylo Kalushev's February 1 farewell SMS prompted searches, leading authorities to seek Kalushev, Nikolay Zlatkov and Aleksandar Makulev amid scarce official information.
- Investigators recovered partial lodge footage showing disturbing actions, and forensic experts found two pistols and a carbine with four shell casings, confirming close-range shots.
- Public and media scrutiny have intensified as investigators offer limited conclusions; Natalia Nikolova stated, "We can conclude, for both investigations, that one of the main versions that we are working on is murder-suicide and suicide."
- Questions about the NGO's name and past ties have emerged, with reports of a 2022 framework agreement with the Environment Ministry and concerns about oversight, as five of the dead were members of the National Agency for Control of Protected Areas NGO.
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What began as a fire in a mountain hut has resulted in the most confusing criminal investigation of the last decade in Bulgaria, as explained by local media. Mystery and deaths have paralysed the country, which aggravates the population's distrust of the government of a nation plunged into a political crisis.Continue reading...
In Bulgaria, mysterious deaths in mountain areas are being investigated.
In addition to rampant conspiracy theories and public opinion, politicians are also raging over the mysterious Bulgarian crime case involving six deaths, which the prosecutor's office calls the "Bulgarian Twin Peaks". The story of the tragedy, which is only referred to as the Petrohan case, from the first scene of the double triple murder, is truly an extremely complex one with threads that stir the imagination.
The mysterious deaths of six people in the mountainous western part of the country are shaking the Bulgarian public. Prosecutors have said that two of the deceased were "probably" murdered, and the case has already been nicknamed the "Bulgarian Twin Peaks" for its ominous nature.
Within a few days, five adults and a 15-year-old boy were found dead from close-range shootings – Religiously motivated suicides or murders because they saw something?
Bulgaria is reeling from the deaths of six people in a mountainous area in the west of the country. Three bodies were found in a burned-out hut where an NGO is based a week ago, and on Sunday three more people were found dead in a camper van 80 kilometers away. Police are still investigating the circumstances, treating the incident as a mass murder or suicide, as all the deceased were members of a closed group that performed spiritual rituals.
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