Bulgaria has pointed an accusing finger at the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah over a bus bombing last July that killed five Israeli tourists. Tsvetan Tsevtnov, Bulgarian interior minister, said on Tuesday that two of the suspects had entered the country respectively with an Australian and a Canadian passport. “We have established that the two were members of the military wing of Hezbollah,” he said. “They had Canadian and Australian passports … [and] lived in Lebanon since 2006 and 2010.” Speaking after a meeting of the country’s National Security Council, Tsevtnov said Bulgaria expects “the government of Lebanon to assist” in the investigation. Following his comments, Najib Mikati, Lebanese prime minister, said in a statement: “Lebanon trusts that the Bulgarian authorities will undertake a serious evaluation of the results of the investigation, and affirms that it is ready to cooperate with Bulgaria to shed light on the circumstances” of the attack.
