Six people found dead in Bulgarian mountains in baffling cases

Bulgaria is grappling with the mysterious deaths of six people in the mountains, a case Zahari Vaskov, director of the national police general directorate, called "a case without comparison in our country." General prosecutor Borislav Sarafov said: "Life has given us more shocking details here than in the Twin Peaks series." The case began at the start of February, when three men aged 45, 49 and 51 were found dead in the burned-out remains of a lodge near the Petrohan pass, which links Sofia province with Montana.

All three had gunshot wounds to the head that forensic experts said were apparently self-inflicted at close range, and DNA traces on the firearms belonged only to the deceased. On Sunday police discovered three more bodies — two men aged 51 and 22 and a 15-year-old boy — in a campervan near Okolchitsa Peak, about 100km north of Sofia.

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