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Fire destroys hotel near Plovdiv

Tue, Feb 10 2009 10:51 CET

byNick Iliev

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A hotel was incinerated near Belasitsa, in the Plovdiv region. The fire at Hotel Relax started at about 5am on February 10, and, according to Bulgarian news agency BTA, the hotel, restaurant and disco were thoroughly destroyed.

Five teams of fire fighters braved the strong winds while struggling to extinguish the conflagration, but in the end it was all in vain.

The mayor of Belasitsa, Gospodin Gospodinov, told Dnevnik daily that the fire was "under control" at 9am, four hours after after it ravaged the facility. Amazingly, considering the scale of the fire and the utter devastation, there were no reported casualties, or even injuries.

According to Nova TV, five people were present in the hotel when the blaze started. Among the five people in the hotel, most of them (an unspecified number) were staff and they were all able to escape. One supposed reason for the fire was a short circuit in the electric panel. Another speculated version is that the hotel was torched for the insurance money.

The owner of the hotel, Ivan Botusharov, owns a distillery company, Nordix; a trade centre in Plovdiv; and Hotel Prespa in the winter ski resort of Pamporovo.

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