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Moscow - The Russian Embassy to Bulgaria has retracted earlier reports that two Russians could have been injured in a bomb attack at the Burgas Airport in Bulgaria.

“The original information on two Russians who were in a car nearby
the bus at a parking lot and who were also injured by the blast and
hospitalized has not been confirmed,” an official from the Russian
Embassy to Bulgaria told Interfax.

Information possessed by the Russian Consulate General in Varna
indicates that the bomb attack apparently targeting a bus carrying
Israeli tourists killed from five to eight people and injured more than
20.

It was reported earlier that a suicide bomber had blown up a bus
expecting Israeli tourists at a parking lot at the Burgas Airport on
Wednesday evening. There were more than 20 people in the bus at the
moment of the blast.