Jason Kenney says suspect moved to Vancouver with his mother when he was a boy© ReutersA former Canadian resident is being sought by Bulgarian officials in connection with a deadly 2012 bus bombing that killed five Israelis, their Bulgarian bus driver, and the bomber himself.
The Canadian dual citizen accused in a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria last year was born in Lebanon and moved to British Columbia with his mother as a boy, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday while declining to release the suspect's name.
"This individual came to Canada as a child, I think at the age eight, settled into Vancouver with his mother, and became a citizen three, four years later," Kenney said during an interview with Evan Solomon on CBC News Network's
Power & Politics.A day earlier, Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov made public his country's ongoing search for the former Canadian resident, who is one of two suspects being sought by security officials in the July 18, 2012, blast in Burgas that killed five Israelis, their Bulgarian bus driver, and the bomber himself.
Kenney said the suspect has "not normally been a resident of Canada" since leaving the country 10 years ago.