The attack in July 2012 killed five Israelis including a pregnant woman, their Bulgarian bus driver and the bomber -- a Franco-Lebanese national -- as well as leaving more than 35 people injured.Bulgarian and Israeli authorities blamed the bombing on the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, playing a part in a subsequent European Union decision to blacklist Hezbollah's military wing as a "terrorist" organisation.
It also ruled that the two -- who had fled Bulgaria and have not been tracked down so far -- must pay damages to the families of those who died or were injured in the attack amounting to more than 100 million leva . Airport CCTV footage showed him wandering inside the airport's arrivals hall with a backpack on his back shortly before the explosion that tore through a bus outside the terminal that was headed to Sunny Beach, a popular summer destination on the Black Sea.
The investigation into the attack found that Farah and Hassan had arrived in Bulgaria from Romania in June 2012 and left again on the evening after the attack.
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