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A group of migrants transported by a Polish woman was apprehended by police near Sofia on Wednesday morning, the Interior Ministry said.  Police attempted to pull over a Polish-registered car on Trakia Motorway. The driver did not comply and a chase

The first chase took place near Sofia on Tuesday morning, in which a police officer was seriously injured and few others were hospitalized after a van carrying illegal migrants crashed into a police vehicle. The second accident happened later in the day in the coastal city of Burgas, where an SUV full of illegal migrants failed to pull over, resulting in a chase and yet another crash.

An unknown individual shot at a Bulgarian border police officer and a serviceperson jointly patrolling the Bulgarian-Turkish border near the village of Golyam Dervent on Monday night. The officer died, the Interior Ministry reported early on Tuesday.