A Spanish soldier was killed and another injured yesterday when a suspected ETA car bomb exploded outside a military academy in the town of Santona in the northern Cantabria region, officials said.
“One person was killed and another hospitalized,” said an official in the governor’s office in the autonomous Cantabria region, adding that the life of the injured soldier was not in danger.
The Basque region’s road assistance service received an anonymous telephone warning 35 minutes ahead of the explosion, which claimed the attack on behalf of the militant Basque separatist group ETA.
The blast caused “considerable material damage,” said police in Santona, which lies in the Cantabria autonomous region adjacent to the Basque country.
Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon and Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba were expected to visit the site of the blast later yesterday, Cantabria regional officials said.
Yesterday’s car bomb attack follows two suspected ETA car bomb attacks on Sunday.
Ten people were injured after suspected Basque separatists threw gas bombs at a police station in Ondarroa in northeast Spain to lure officers outside before detonating a car bomb.
That attack came only hours after a car bomb exploded in the regional capital of Vitoria, causing no injuries as an anonymous warning gave police time to clear the area.
If confirmed to be the work of ETA, the latest blast takes its toll of killings to 824 people since starting its campaign of violence 40 years ago, and five since abandoning a “permanent ceasefire” in June last year.
Designated a “terrorist organization” by the EU, the group has carried out a series of bombings, mostly in the northeastern Basque region, since talks with the government collapsed in last year.
Its previous victim was a policeman who was killed when a car bomb exploded in front of his barracks in the Basque Country on May 14.
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