The government plane "Airbus 319" with a second group of Bulgarian citizens evacuated from Israel landed at Sofia Airport at 03:40 am on Monday morning with 87 passengers on board. They are mainly tourists and medical conference participants.
14 non-Bulgarian citizens also traveled in the plane - 6 are from Romania, two each from Austria, Italy and Germany, and one each from Greece and Israel.
The plane took off shortly after 1 a.m. from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and was met in Sofia by Parliament Speaker Rosen Zhelyazkov and Foreign Minister Mariya Gabriel.
On Sunday, 92 Bulgarian citizens and one Croatian were evacuated from Israel and landed in Sofia.
Bulgaria's Minister of Transport, Georgi Gvozdeikov, announced that the evacuations will continue as long as there are Bulgarian citizens willing to be taken out of Israel. He added that other countries in the EU have expressed a desire for Bulgaria to transport their citizens and, if possible, this will be done.
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