Report: Burgas bomber spent night before attack with woman
The suicide bomber in last week's deadly attack on
Israeli tourists in Bulgaria entered from neighboring Romania, spoke decent
Russian and had a female companion, local media reported on Monday.
Citing investigators probing last Wednesday's bombing of
a bus at Burgas airport that killed five Israeli tourists and the driver,
television channel bTV said that the attacker was in the city of Varna for at
least a day before the bombing.
While in Varna, which is further up the Black Sea coast
from Burgas, he left behind "biological evidence" at a hotel, BTV
said.
The newspaper Troud meanwhile reported that police were
looking for a woman believed to have been staying in the Varna hotel with the
bomber, naming it as the three-star Hotel Perfekt.
This woman is also believed to be linked to a possible
second man whom police think may have been the bomber's accomplice, the
newspaper said, also citing unnamed investigators.
The daily also cited a taxi driver who said he drove the
suicide bomber from Ravda and Pomorie, two small towns north of Burgas, the day
before the attack, and that he spoke "decent Russian."
Bulgarian authorities have declined to comment on the
investigation, saying only that they believe the bomber was aged around 36, had
a fake US driver's licence, was not Bulgarian and had been in the country
"not less than four days."
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