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Thursday, February 16, 2017
2 Israelis held in Bulgaria over murder of fellow Israeli
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTwo Israelis are detained by Bulgarian police in the western Bulgarian town of Samokov on suspicion of murdering a third Israeli.
The two men are detained some two kilometers from the site where authorities find a mortally wounded Israeli man, and some 1,500 meters from an abandoned van believed to have been involved in the incident, the Sofia News Agency reports, citing private broadcaster bTV.
According to various local reports, the two detained Israelis are brothers, and are suspected of having dropped the victim in a forest outside Samokov. Local witnesses tell police they saw the brothers fleeing the site after leaving the victim behind.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry says it is looking into the report.
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