Seven people were killed and dozens were injured on Saturday when a freight train carrying highly flammable gas derailed and then exploded, devastating a village in northeastern Bulgaria. A blast ripped through the centre of the village of Hitrino, destroying a railway station, offices and dozens of houses and sending plumes of black smoke into the air, an AFP photographer saw. The head of the Bulgaria's civil defence organisation, Nikolai Nikolov, said the death toll had risen to seven.
