Bulgarian police widen suicide bombing probe
Bulgarian police have widened their investigation into
last week's bombing attack on Israeli tourists to towns near the border with
Romania, asking hotels for surveillance video that might have captured the
suspected bomber.
Hotels in the Black Sea coastal city of Varna say police
have been asking for video showing a particular suspect and are giving a sketch
of the suspect to management.
Investigators also have questioned workers at a car
rental agency near the Black Sea coast where the man attempted to rent a car
before Wednesday's attack, the agency's owner told CNN.
Five Israeli tourists were killed and more than 30 other
Israelis were wounded when a suicide bomber blew apart their bus at Burgas
International Airport.
Bulgarian authorities still have not been able to
identify the bomber, who was seen on airport security videos about an hour
before the attack. They have taken fingerprints and DNA samples and given that
information to their counterparts in Israel, the United States and Interpol.
The Bulgarian Interior Ministry says it is not ruling out
the possibility that the suspect had help, though it won't comment on reports
that authorities are looking for a second suspect.
The owner and an employee of the Afrodita Car Rental
Agency told CNN a suspicious man wanted to rent a car the Sunday before the
attack and tried to use the Michigan driver's license later found at the scene
of the attack.
When the owner said he wanted to photocopy the license,
the man grew nervous and refused to have it copied. At that point, the owner
said he refused to rent the man a car and the man walked out.
The car rental owner described the man as having short
dark hair and speaking English with an accent. The woman who conducted the
forensic reconstruction of the suspected bomber's face and body, told Bulgarian
TV the man had a white face, light eyes and thick dark hair.
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