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Summary Security camera images of the Bulgarian man who carried bomb attack on Israeli tourists released.
Bulgarian officials released a brief video clip recorded by an airport security camera on Wednesday of the man they identified as the bomber behind the deadly attack on Israeli tourists in the resort town of Burgas.As my colleagues Nicholas Kulish and Matthew Brunwasser report, Bulgaria’s interior minister, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, told reporters that the man, who was carrying a fake Michigan driver’s license, had long hair and carried a backpack, blending in with the travelers from Israel.“He either had turned with his backpack toward the bus when he exploded it or pretended he was one of the group putting his backpack in the baggage compartment under the bus,” a Bulgarian official with knowledge of the investigation told The Times. “Video footage clearly shows him in the airport earlier wandering back and forth, following the group, looking nervous.”ABC News obtained a photograph of the fake driver’s license, which was charred but intact after the attacker killed himself and at least six other people on a bus filled with tourists from Israel.Video uploaded to a Bulgarian YouTube channel.
