Burgas bombers planned to blow up full bus remotely, officials say
The terrorists behind the Burgas attack that killed five Israelis over the summer planned to detonate their bomb remotely while the bus was en route to a hotel, Bulgaria’s interior minister said Wednesday, as details about the bombing continued to emerge.
Tsvetan Tsvetanov also described the three suspects’ way into and out of Bulgaria, fleeing to Lebanon via Turkey and Romania immediately after the attack, the New York Times reported.
On Tuesday, Bulgarian authorities released a long-sought report of their probe into the July 18 bombing, which killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver and injured 30 others. The report blamed Hezbollah for the attack and said the two surviving terrorists were now living in Lebanon, where the Shi’ite terror group is based.
On Wednesday, Tsvetanov said the attackers plan went awry when the bomb went off prematurely, killing one of the terrorists in the blast as Israeli tourists in the Black Sea resort town boarded the bus.
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