Bulgarian Authorities Strongly Condemn Ankara Terrorist Attack

Bulgarian authorities strongly condemned on Monday the terrorist attack which claimed the lives of at least 37 people and left 125 other injured in Ankara on Sunday.

A suicide car bomb exploded in the centre of the Turkish capital in the vicinity of ten bus stops, killing thirty people on the site of the attack, with seven other dying on their way to hospital.

It is believed that at least one of the attackers is among the victims.

A total of 71 people are still undergoing treatment in hospitals, with fifteen remaining in intensive care.

This is the third large-scale terrorist attack in the Turkish capital since October last year.

Two suicide attackers targeted the participants in a peace rally near the central railway station, killing at least 103 people on October 10 last year.

A car bomb targeted military shuttles waiting at a traffic light in central Ankara, killing at least thirty people on February 17.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov strongly condemned the terrorist attack, noting that it is the third in the space of six months.

According to Mitov, there is no cause which could legitimise such an inhumane act.

The Bulgarian foreign minister expressed his sincerest condolences to the relatives of the victims and wished successful recovery to the injured.

In his words, Bulgaria shares the grief of its neighbouring and friendly Turkey where a cruel spiral of violence undermining democracy continues to escalate.

Mitov expressed confidence that Turkish authorities will make all efforts to identify the perpetrators of the barbarian act.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev sent a telegram to his Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan, expressing his condolences to the families and relatives...