Franco Statue Again Survives Bomb Blast
A statue of the late dictator Francisco Franco on Monday survived its third bomb attack in this northwestern town, local officials said.
No one was hurt in the early-morning blast, which broke windows around the town’s central square. The statue, of Franco on horseback, was slightly damaged.
Police defused three other bombs left in an ornamental pond near the statue. No one has yet claimed responsibility, but two previous attacks on the statue were claimed by the separatist Free Galician People’s Guerrilla Army.
Franco, who died in 1975, was born in Ferrol.
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