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    Bus Bomb Attack Victims Flown Home To Israel

    The bodies of five Israelis killed in a bomb attack on a tourist bus at a Bulgarian airport have arrived back in Israel.

    The five coffins, with Israeli flags draped over them, were taken off a military plane that landed in Tel Aviv early on Friday morning.

    Dozens of mourning relatives gathered to wait for the plane's arrival.

    The tourists were killed, along with the bus driver and the bomber, when the blast ripped through the vehicle in the Black Sea resort of Burgas.

    On Thursday CCTV footage was released showing the suspected suicide bomber standing in an area of the airport wearing a T-shirt, shorts, cap and backpack.

    Bulgaria's interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said he was carrying a Michigan driver's licence, which has now been sent to the US FBI for authentication.

    Mr Tsvetanov said it was "very likely" the attack, which left 34 people injured, was a suicide mission.

    Passengers said they were boarding the bus in the airport car park when the blast ripped through the vehicle.

    "We were at the entrance of the bus and in a few seconds we heard a huge boom," said Gal Malka, an Israeli teenager who was slightly wounded.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed the finger of blame directly at Iran and Lebanese militia Hizbollah.

    He said: "Yesterday's attack in Bulgaria was perpetrated by Hizbollah - Iran's leading terrorist proxy. This attack was part of a global campaign of terror carried out by Iran and Hizbollah.

    "Iran must be exposed by the international community as the premier terrorist-supporting state that it is."

    Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast called the accusation "baseless," saying it was aimed at diverting world attention from Israel's role in the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists.

    Israel has attributed a series of attacks on its citizens around the world in recent months to Iran and its Shiite proxies, threatening to escalate a shadow war between the two arch-enemies that has escalated over Israeli allegations that the Iranians are trying to build nuclear weapons.