DNA tests confirm Bulgarian Roma couple as Maria's parents

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AFP Sofia
Last Updated : Oct 25 2013 | 7:57 PM IST
DNA tests confirmed that a Bulgarian Roma couple are the biological parents of Maria, the blonde girl found in a Greek Roma camp last week, an interior ministry official said today.
"DNA samples showed that Sasha Ruseva is the biological mother and Atanas Rusev is the biological father of the child called Maria," Bulgaria's interior ministry chief of staff Svetlozar Lazarov told reporters.

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First Published: Oct 25 2013 | 7:57 PM IST

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