Summary Bulgaria has already said it wants to try two men suspected of involvement in the bombing.
SOFIA (AFP) - Bulgaria has identified a third person allegedly involved in a suicide attack on an airport bus that killed five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian driver, the chief prosecutor said Thursday.
Sotir Tsatsarov gave no details of the new suspect in the case. Bulgaria has already said it wants to try two men, one Canadian and one Australian, suspected of involvement in the bombing, whose direct perpetrator who died on the spot remains unidentified.
"There was a third person who was directly involved in the attack," Tsatsarov said.
"The establishment of the new accomplice in the attack will prolong the investigation and there will be new international prosecution requests.
"This does not mean that the arraignment is put off indefinitely, we just need a little more time."
The July 2012 bus bombing was the deadliest attack against Israeli nationals abroad since 2004 and the first in a European Union member state.
Israeli and Bulgarian authorities have said Hezbollah was behind the attack.
The two suspects who have been identified are 32-year-old Australian Maliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein, and 25-year-old Canadian Hassan El Hajj Hassan. Both are thought to live in Lebanon.
Tsatsarov said Sofia had hoped to put the men on trial by April, but had not yet received a response to its extradition requests.
