ZAKA volunteers examining the scene of the terror attack on the Israeli tour bus at the Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, July 18, 2012. (Courtesy ZAKA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Seven people died in the attack, which occurred Wednesday at about 5 p.m. The dead included five Israelis, the bus driver and the suicide bomber. Names of those killed were scheduled to be announced on Thursday night after their bodies arrived in Israel.<\/p>\n
An airport security camera at the Sarafovo airport in Burgas revealed that the bomber was a Caucasian man with long hair and a backpack who had been wandering around the area for about an hour. He reportedly was carrying a fake Michigan driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly accused Iran of sponsoring the attack. In a statement on Thursday, Netanyahu called on “the world’s leading powers” to recognize “that Iran is the country that stands behind this terror campaign. \u00a0Iran must be exposed by the international community as the premiere terrorist-supporting state that it is.”<\/p>\n
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he had information that the attack was the joint work of the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n
Iran has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n
Soon after the attack, Amit Kuza was taken by paramedics to a hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria\u2019s capital. Her mother \u201csat on the side of the road,\u201d unattended for two hours because she was deemed to be in stable condition, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had no one to talk to,\u201d Vered Kuza said. \u201cI didn\u2019t even have a glass of water. They don\u2019t know English. It was primitive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bulgarian officials told Kuza that her daughter was in Sofia and in a stable condition. But Kuza was not able to speak to her daughter until Thursday morning. Amit and the two others who had remained in Bulgaria were scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
When news of the attack reached Israel, Arik Kuza, Vered\u2019s husband, called the Foreign Ministry to find out if his wife and daughter were alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called 50 times,\u201d he said, standing at Vered\u2019s bedside. \u201cThey put me on hold and I heard music. I waited for hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lying in her hospital bed, she spoke in a calm and even tone. With her daughter scheduled to arrive in a few hours, she said she felt lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n
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