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Protesters temporarily block road to Kalotina border crossing

| updated on 8/14/20 3:28 PM
Photo: BGNES / Photo: БГНЕС

Traffic congestion was caused in both directions near Kalotina border checkpoint after protesters blocked the road about two kilometers away from the border crossing. Later, protesters lifted the blockade. However, a fifteen-kilometer line of vehicles formed near the border checkpoint.

Teams of Border Police and Sofia Metropolitan Directorate of Interior are still in the area. Traffic is extremely heavy, reporters of Horizont channel of BNR inform.






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