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07-18-2012, 05:16 PM
Israel Points to Iran for Bulgarian Bus Bombing
Update (1:04 p.m. EDT): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly blamed Iran for the attack, telling Israeli news site Haaretz, "Iran is responsible for the terror attack in Bulgaria, we will have a strong response against Iranian terror."
Update (12:46 p.m. EDT): The Associated Press has some new casualty figures, reporting 27 injured, in addition to at least three dead.
Update (12:05 p.m. EDT): Witnesses told Israeli television that someone boarded the bus immediately before the huge explosion, according to both the Associated Press and the BBC reports. Flights into Burgas are being diverted to Varna, Reuters reports.
Update (12:03 p.m. EDT): Sofia is now calling the blast a terrorist attack, citing Bulgarian police, and saying that 18 to 20 people were injured in addition to the three to five killed. It says the tourists had boarded the bus, bound for the Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, after arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv.
Original: A bus carrying Israeli tourists exploded at an airport in the Bulgarian city of Burgas, killing three people and closing the airport, the Bulgarian Sofia News Agency reports, with BBC confirming the news via Bulgarian officials. The details are still slim, and the major Western news services haven't confirmed the cause, but Sofia's initial one-sentence report says three people were killed as the bus exploded in the airport parking lot. A report on the Bulgarian newswire BGNES puts the number of dead at five. ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden cites the Bulgarian news site Segabg, which reports a bomb in the trunk of the bus exploded, and that 40 people were aboard for the blast at 5:30 p.m., local time.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/bus-carrying-israeli-tourists-explodes-bulgarian-airport/54733/
Update (1:04 p.m. EDT): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly blamed Iran for the attack, telling Israeli news site Haaretz, "Iran is responsible for the terror attack in Bulgaria, we will have a strong response against Iranian terror."
Update (12:46 p.m. EDT): The Associated Press has some new casualty figures, reporting 27 injured, in addition to at least three dead.
Update (12:05 p.m. EDT): Witnesses told Israeli television that someone boarded the bus immediately before the huge explosion, according to both the Associated Press and the BBC reports. Flights into Burgas are being diverted to Varna, Reuters reports.
Update (12:03 p.m. EDT): Sofia is now calling the blast a terrorist attack, citing Bulgarian police, and saying that 18 to 20 people were injured in addition to the three to five killed. It says the tourists had boarded the bus, bound for the Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, after arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv.
Original: A bus carrying Israeli tourists exploded at an airport in the Bulgarian city of Burgas, killing three people and closing the airport, the Bulgarian Sofia News Agency reports, with BBC confirming the news via Bulgarian officials. The details are still slim, and the major Western news services haven't confirmed the cause, but Sofia's initial one-sentence report says three people were killed as the bus exploded in the airport parking lot. A report on the Bulgarian newswire BGNES puts the number of dead at five. ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden cites the Bulgarian news site Segabg, which reports a bomb in the trunk of the bus exploded, and that 40 people were aboard for the blast at 5:30 p.m., local time.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/bus-carrying-israeli-tourists-explodes-bulgarian-airport/54733/