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Bulgaria blames Hezbollah for deadly anti-Israeli bomb

Bulgaria blamed Hezbollah on Tuesday for a July 2012 bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists, leading to renewed calls on the EU to declare the Lebanese movement a "terrorist" organisation.

Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov (L) and Prime Minister Boiko Borisov answer questions during a press conference in Sofia, on February 5, 2013. Bulgaria blamed Hezbollah on Tuesday for a July 2012 bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists, leading to renewed calls on the EU to declare the Lebanese movement a "terrorist" organisation.

"What we can make as a justified conclusion is that the two persons whose identity we have established belonged to the military wing of Hezbollah," Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told reporters.

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