site.btaInspections after Fire at Fireworks Warehouses near Elin Pelin Continue

The inspections continue after last week's fire at the warehouses for fireworks and pyrotechnics near Elin Pelin (Western Bulgaria), National Investigation Service investigator Ivan Delchev told a news briefing on Monday. Only one-eighth of the warehouses' territory has been inspected thus far, he specified. 

The CCTV camera recordings are yet to be checked, so it is impossible to say yet whether they contains information or have been entirely destroyed.

Evidence will be gathered back to the designation of the lot for warehouses storing fireworks and pyrotechnics.

One of the bodies found in one of the warehouses has been identified, Delchev said but refused to give details.

Sofia District Prosecutor Natalia Nikolova said that the cause of death of two persons found after the authorities managed to enter the territory of the burned warehouses, is an explosion. Eight witnesses have been questioned already, and more will be questioned, most of them the firefighters who responded first to the fire and assisted the two injured persons who later died in hospital.

The investigation is looking at various versions for what happened: an accident, human negligence, poor production quality, and a deliberate act, Nikolova specified.