The authorities in Bulgaria have finally demolished the white marble mausoleum that once contained the embalmed body of the country's first Communist leader, Georgi Dimitrov.

Working day and night for almost a week demolition gangs finally levelled the monument using explosives and bulldozers.

Mr Dimitrov's body was removed from the mausoleum and cremated in 1990, a year after the collapse of Communism in Bulgaria.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister, Ivan Kostov, had insisted the mausoleum must be destroyed because it symbolised totalitarianism.