Georgi Hadjiivanchev (52) from the central Bulgarian town of Gorna Oryahovitsa has become the latest victim of an acid attack, Bulgarian news website dnes.bg quoted Bulgarian National Radio on November 24 2008.  

At about 8.30am Hadjiivanchev left home on his way to work when an unidentified assailant threw acid in his face. Hadjiivanchev managed to reach a nearby petrol station where he summoned help. He was admitted to Veliko Turnovo hospital with serious facial burns but his life was not said to be in any danger.

BNR said that he will be transferred to a hospital in Rousse. Police have launched an investigation into the case. According to dnes.bg, Hadjiivanchev owns several stores in Goran Oryahovitsa.

The attack on Hadjiivanchev comes exactly two weeks after 33-year-old Peta Staevska suffered serous burns to her face, hands and chest after she was splashed with acid in Sofia. She was ambushed in front of a building on Sofia's Bulgaria Boulevard where Staevska's furniture company Bogdan mebel has offices. 
 
In her first interview Staevska said that she owed money to no one and the motive for the attack on her was probably personal.

On November 23 2008 private national bTV channel said that police had arrested a suspect in the case. This allegedly was Dimitar Pachedjiev, owner of a meat processing plant.

In an interview for bTV Staevska said that she had advised a friend of hers, Anna, to leave Pachedjiev. Anna had been in a nine-month relationship with Pachedjiev. After she left him Pachedjiev blamed Staevska and threatened to make her pay, Staevska said.

BTV also said that there were witnesses to Pachedjiev's ordering the assault on Staevska. He is currently under arrest.