3 Killed, 46 Hurt in Disco as 6 Bombs Rock Spanish Cities
Six bombs exploded in several cities in the northwestern Galicia region before dawn Thursday, including one in a crowded discotheque that killed three people and injured 46, police said.
A seventh bomb was defused.
Officials said the three people killed in the Santiago de Compostela club bombing were believed to have been planting the device when it went off.
No one was injured in the other five explosions, which targeted businesses in another province, Pontevedra, its civil governor, Jorge Parada, told reporters.
Gov. Ramon Berra of La Coruna province, which includes Santiago de Compostela, told Spanish National Radio that police were investigating whether drug traffickers might be behind the disco blast.
A Galician separatist group claimed responsibility for the Pontevedra bombings, said Parada. The bombs hit a clothing store, a car dealership, a cannery, a bar and a bank office.
Parada said that police bomb experts defused another bomb at a bank in the Pontevedra province town of Villa Garcia after a telephoned threat by the same group.
The group, the Guerrilla Army of the Free Galician People, seeks independence from Spain for the four-province northwestern region of Galicia.
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