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The Guardian - UK
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Eden Maclachlan in Sofia

Bulgaria gripped by mysterious deaths of six people in mountains

A crowd of people gather near an emergency vehicle. The ground is covered in thick snow
Emergency services near the Petrohan pass, where three men were found in the burned out remains of a lodge with gunshot wounds to the head. Photograph: Nova Tv/Reuters

It has been dubbed Bulgaria’s “Twin Peaks”: a grim saga involving the mysterious deaths of six people in the middle of the mountains that has gripped the eastern European country.

Zahari Vaskov, the director of the national police general directorate, told a press conference on Monday that the deaths were “a case without comparison in our country”.

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