The mines near the village of Gorni Lom, where an ammunition plant exploded last night, are stored according to all requirements, Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Defense, Valentin Radev, announced.

The mines are in the other part of plant’s territory and are not many in number. In addition, they used to be stored in a way ammunition are stored in the army - in separate rooms, in separate warehouses, there is enough distance between them and there is no connection to the production of these explosive materials, Radev explained.
The explosion that occurred on Wednesday at the Mizhur ammunition plant was due to fire that burst out from powder materials on the assembly line for explosive materials production.

"Probably some machine on this installation has burnt out and some fire impulse occurred. This is the good outcome, since if there had been a detonation impulse, then the effect of the blast would have been much bigger because of the almost 10 tons of materials, which by the way make more than 2-3 tons of trotyl equivalent", Radev said.