Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov has said that a foreign intelligence service had information that might have helped to thwart the 2012 bombing in Burgas.

The service in question, however, did not share the data with its "partners" from Bulgaria, Tsatsarov has told the Bulgarian National Television in an interview.

On 18 July 2012, a suicide bomber targeted a passenger bus with Israeli tourists who had just landed at the airport in Burgas and were about to be taken to their hotel in the resort of Sunny Beach.

Bulgarian authorities "came across cases of information that it took us months to obtain through international legal assistance or other channels, [but] that may have been familiar to some or other services."

"It was kept jealously, everyone keeps their own territory," he has said.

"The lack of a proper international anti-terror exchange leads to a situation where a country does not know what happens in the neighboring one, who crosses the border and what intentions they have."

Earlier, President Rosen Plevneliev told visiting Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin to Bulgaria that the perpetrators and organizers of the 2012 attack would be brought to court in the coming days.

While no organisation has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing, Bulgaria and the international community maintain that a military wing of Hezbollah was behind it.

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