The Borneo Post

Bulgaria charges five with helping Istanbul bombing suspect

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SOFIA: Bulgaria has charged five people with helping one of the suspects in last weekend’s bombing in central Istanbul which killed six people, prosecutor­s said Saturday.

Turkey on Friday jailed 17 people over last Sunday’s blast, which Ankara has blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) it designates as a ‘terror group’. The victims include two girls aged nine and 15.

“Five people have been charged” over their ‘logistical’ help to one of the suspects to flee, Siyka Mileva, a spokeswoma­n for the Sofia prosecutor’s office told AFP.

Local television channels said three of the people charged in Bulgaria were from Moldova and a fourth was from an unspecifie­d Arab country. There were no immediate details about the fifth person. The PKK and its Syrian offshoot the YPG have denied involvemen­t in the blast, which also wounded 81 people. No individual or group has claimed responsibi­lity for the attack.

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