Sound like an ETA attack, but the fact that it was not called in a troubling sign:
BURGOS, Spain (AP) -- A powerful car bomb exploded early Wednesday outside a barracks housing police officers and their families in this northern Spanish city, slightly injuring 46 people and causing major damage in the area. The attack was blamed on Basque separatist group ETA.
Most of the injuries from the blast were from flying glass, and 38 of the wounded were treated in hospitals, regional ministry representative Miguel Alejo said. Many of the injured were Civil Guard police officers and family members.
The bomb detonated around 4:00 a.m. (0200 GMT, 10 p.m. EDT Tuesday) and left a crater that had filled with water from broken underground pipes, Alejo said.
''The car used to cause the explosion has been displaced some 70 meters (230 feet) so that gives you an idea of the power of the blast,'' he said.
Police and emergency services did not receive any warning that a bomb had been planted, but the explosion had the hallmarks of an ETA attack, Alejo said. It was not immediately clear how many people were in the building at the time.
The last attack was a bomb on July 1oth and the last fatality was in June with killing of an officer by car bomb. For a time line of ETA, its founding and activities check here. There were suspicions of an attack coming, it just wasn't caught in time.
My last name is Basque...although I have never traveled there, I would like to one day.
ReplyDeleteAs you probably know there are 4 Basque states/deparments in France, even more than Spain!
The Socialist Rodriguez Zapatero has been very feeble in terms of truly confronting them for years, wanting to give "peace" a chance.