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TIR trucks form ten- kilometer queue at Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint

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TIR trucks formed ten-kilometer queue at the exit of Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint at the Bulgarian-Turkish border, because the systems of the Bulgarian Border Police at that checkpoint stopped functioning at noon. In the past 24 hours over 1,600 freight vehicles crossed the border checkpoint in both directions-to and from Turkey. Last week an average of 1,450-1,500 TIR truck crossed the Bulgaria-Turkey border per day, BNR correspondent Dora Atanasova informs.




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