Bulgaria charges 5 in deadly bombing

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Police in Bulgaria have detained five people in connection with the bombing that killed six people in Turkey’s largest city earlier this month, the Bulgarian prosecution service said Saturday.

The detained individuals were charged with helping one of the people who carried out the Nov. 13 bombing on a busy Istanbul street, Siika Mileva, a spokesperson for Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor, said.

They are accused of providing “logistical assistance”

to help the person flee, but Mileva did not say whether that suspect remained at large.

The nationalities and identities of the people held in Bulgaria were not given.

The state-run Turkish news agency Anadolu reported Saturday that anti-terrorism police in Istanbul had detained eight others suspected of assisting those who carried

out the bombing.