Alleged Suicide Bomber in Bulgaria Blows Up Bus

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A suicide bomber carried out an attack that killed seven people in a bus transporting Israeli tourists to the Bulgarian seaside on July 18, the country’s interior minister said. The attack prompted Israeli officials to point the finger at Iran and its Hizballah militant proxies.

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Family and friends attend the funeral of Itzik Kolengi, 28, who was killed and his wife injured in a suicide bombing in Bulgaria Wednesday in Petah Tikva, Israel, Friday, July 20, 2012.

The coffins of Itzik Colangi, Amir Menashe, Maor Harush, Elior Price and Kochava Shriki, who were killed in an attack in Bulgaria, are seen during a ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 20, 2012 near Tel Aviv, Israel.

Smoke rises over Bourgas airport in Bulgaria where seven people were killed and more than 20 were wounded by a suicide bomber, July 18, 2012.

An Israeli woman caught in the bombing attack in Bulgaria is comforted as she arrives at Soroka hospital in the southern city of Beersheva on July 19, 2012.

An Israeli medic helps the survivor of a bomb attack to board an ambulance and prepare to go to the airport for a flight back to Israel, in Bourgas, on July 19, 2012.

A truck carries the bus damaged by the suicide bomb blast which targeted a group of Israeli tourists at the airport in Bourgas, Bulgaria, July 19, 2012.

Medics assist Israeli Nurit Harush, wounded during an attack in Bulgaria, after her arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, Israel July 19, 2012.

Israeli military personnel walk in front of the hospital in Bourgas, on July 19, 2012, as the Israeli victims of a bomb blast the previous day are transferred to the airport for a flight back to their home country.

The sisters of a woman who was killed during an attack in Bulgaria mourn as they wait for their wounded relatives, at the Ben Gurion International Airport on July 19, 2012 near Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel has placed the blame of the attack - which killed eight Israeli tourists - on Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants.

A woman lights a candle at the site of the Wednesday bomb blast at the parking lot of Burgas Airport, July 19, 2012.

An Israeli survivor is carried on a stretcher to an ambulance as she leaves a hospital in the city of Burgas en route to Israel, July 19, 2012.