Right after Bulgaria's authorities started the final countdown of the last 1000 hours before the country's EU accession, three bombs went off and a man was murdered in public in Bulgaria, mediapool.bg said.

The accidents happened in the moment when the EC discussed Bulgaria's progress in the fight against organised crime.

Krasimir Dimitrov, the man shot dead, was murdered on November 21 in front of a restaurant in Bulgaria's capital of Sofia. He was shot with five bullets.

According to initial information Dimitrov knew the cigarette mafia boss Ivan Todorov, also murdered in public in the beginning of 2006, medipool.bg said. Police said Dimitrov had no previous criminal record and was not related to organised criminal groups.

The number of public murders in Bulgaria in the past several years reached nearly 200, mediapool.bg said.

Only two hours after the killing, a bomb went off in front of a pharmacy in Bulgaria's coastal city of Varna. The owner Hristo Mareshki is among biggest medicine dealers in Bulgaria.

Also on November 22 2006 a second bomb exploded in front of an apartment in Sofia's residential district of Lyulin. The apartment owner had been arrested for attempt murder, mediapool.bg said.

A third bomb went off around 3.00 am in the coastal town of Nessebar. The bomb was placed in front of an office.