Naval Patrol Boat Sunk in Latest Bombing in Spain
A bomb sank a Spanish naval patrol boat anchored in San Sebastian harbor Friday in the second bombing incident in the city in less than 24 hours.
Police said no one was injured in the blast on the 30-foot boat, which had been evacuated after Red Cross officials received an anonymous early morning warning by telephone.
Explosives experts rushed to the scene, but the bomb went off before they arrived. Police did not know the size of the bomb.
Police Thursday defused a powerful parcel bomb sent to the head of the Civil Guard in Spain’s northern province of Guipuzcoa.
They said the bomb, containing 2.4 pounds of explosives, was hidden among geography books sent to Lt. Col. Enrique Rodriguez Galindo from Madrid.
No one claimed responsibility for either of the bombs, which follow a wave of letter and parcel bomb attacks on judicial and government officials this year by ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) separatists.
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