Traffic for vehicles weighing more than 12 metric tonnes has also resumed on the motorway toward Plovdiv
Traffic has been fully restored in both directions on the Trakia Motorway near the 69km mark after the road was closed because of a wildfire near the turn-off for Velingrad.
Shortly before 8.00pm, traffic heading towards Sofia was allowed to resume. Around an hour later, the motorway was also reopened in the direction of Burgas.
The restriction on lorries weighing more than 12 tonnes travelling towards Plovdiv on the Trakia Motorway has also been lifted.
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Individual hotspots are being brought under control in stages and are now being extinguished, said Miroslav Stoyanov, spokesperson for the Pazardzhik Regional Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior. Firefighting operations are ongoing.
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