Bomb blast outside Spanish court injures one
( 2003-07-25 14:51) (Agencies)
A bomb exploded outside a courthouse in northern Spain on Friday and injured one person shortly after a warning call was made in the name of armed Basque separatist group ETA, a police source said.
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Demonstrators gather in the street in Alicante, Spain, Wednesday July 23, 2003, to protest against the bombing of two tourist hotels Tuesday, one here and the other in nearby Benidorm, that police suspect were the work of the Basque separatist group ETA. Nine people were slightly injured in the blasts. [AP] |
"The explosion happened at 6 am on the dot (0400 GMT), injuring one person who was passing by in a van," the source said.
The bomb was placed at the doors of a courthouse in Estella, Navarre, a province claimed by Basque separatists as a part of a greater Basque homeland.
Police said a warning call in the name of ETA had been made to a motorway assistance association shortly before the explosion.
ETA, branded a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union, has killed more than 800 people in a three-decade campaign for an independent Basque state in northern Spain and southwestern France.
On Tuesday, bombs ripped through two hotels in popular Spanish seaside resorts Benidorm and Alicante, after a warning call in the name of ETA. Thirteen people were injured, two seriously.
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