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January 18, 2018       Share:    

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/bulgarian-court-opens-trial-for-2012-bus-bombing/2018/01/17/629ec73c-fb98-11e7-9b5d-bbf0da31214d_story.html

Trial Opens in Bulgaria for 2012 Bombing of Israeli Tourists

(AP-Washington Post) On July 18, 2012, Mohamad Hassan El-Husseini, a French-Lebanese national, blew himself up on a tourist bus at the airport in the Black Sea resort of Burgas, killing five Israeli tourists and their bus driver and injuring 35. A Bulgarian court has opened the trial in absentia of Meliad Farah, a dual Lebanese-Australian national, and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, a dual Lebanese-Canadian national, who provided the explosive device and logistical support to the bomber on behalf of Hizbullah.

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