A car bomb has exploded at a resort on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast today, killing a child and wounding four others, police and hospital officials said.
Bulgarian policemen investigate the site of a car bomb explosion in the Black Sea village of Obzor
It was the second such explosion in two days and the third since June, highlighting the Balkan state's battle against organised crime as it prepares to join the European Union in 2007.
Police said the blast killed a 2-year-old girl and wounded a Bulgarian man and woman as they sat in a car in front of a hotel in Obzor, a village near the southern port of Bourgas. It is not clear whether the dead girl and the wounded Bulgarians were related. Two German children who were nearby were also hurt.
"The explosion looks to be connected to business interests," an interior ministry official said, using the often-cited term for disputes between warring crime gangs. Yesterday, four people were wounded when a car exploded near Sofia.