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Car Bombing Kills 1, Injures 4 in Spain

by Jarrett Martineau | May 13, 2008 at 09:42 pm | 133 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

One man was killed and four others were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Legutiano, Spain on Wednesday. More on this story as it develops.

The explosion of a booby-trapped van outside a civil guard barracks in Spain's restive Basque country on Wednesday killed a man and wounded four other people, police told AFP.
Spanish media attributed the blast to the armed Basque separatist group ETA.

The attack in the town of Legutiano happened around 3:00 am (0100 GMT) without a warning by a anyone claiming to speak on behalf of ETA, a spokesman for regional Basque police said.

Three of the wounded were rushed to a hospital while two other people -- one dead and one wounded -- were retrieved from rubble.

The van was parked a few metres (feet) from the barracks. National radio said the dead man was a civil guard.

Fourty people including family of the civil guards who also live in the barracks were evacuated after the blast and the area was cordoned off, police said.

The assailants fled by car which was found by police officers in the nearby town of Abadino.