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Court postpones preliminary hearing on Bourgas terrorist attack

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The court has postponed the preliminary hearing, scheduled for today, of the victims and witnesses of the terrorist act at Sarafovo Airport in Bourgas in July 2012, when five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian national were killed and 35 wounded. The prosecutor’s office is charging, in absentia, Meliad Farah, who has Australian and Lebanese citizenship and Hassan el-Hajj Hassan with Canadian and Lebanese citizenship. The two are wanted on an Interpol red notice. 



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