Police struggle to identify Bulgaria suicide bomber

Investigators have released CCTV footage of the person they believe carried out Wednesday's attack in the Black Sea airport of Burgas on a bus carrying Israeli holidaymakers. (Reuters)

Bulgarian police, the FBI and Interpol are struggling to identify a suicide bomber who killed six people, including five Israelis, as the U.S. said the attack bore the “hallmarks” of Hezbollah.

Investigators have released CCTV footage of the person they believe carried out Wednesday’s attack in the Black Sea airport of Burgas on a bus carrying Israeli holidaymakers, which also claimed the life of the Bulgarian driver.

After two days of investigations, Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov was only able to confirm Friday that the bomber was “not a Bulgarian citizen” and had been in the country “not less than four days”.

Fingerprints and DNA samples from the suspected bomber’s body were being used in the effort to learn his identity, he added.

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