Defence Ministry denies Bulgarian-made weapons used in Karbala attack.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

The Defence Ministry and the General Staff have categorically denied a claim by Sergeant Ivan Kyumdzhiev, who has recently returned from Karbala [Iraq], that "made in Sopot" was written on a fragment of an artillery shell found in the rubble of the India base attacked by terrorists.

There are no 120-mm artillery systems, Brig-Gen Nikola Vulkov, deputy chief expert of …