2 Car Bombs in Madrid Kill 7, Injure 25
Two car bombs exploded in central Madrid at the height of the morning rush hour Monday, killing seven people and injuring 25, police said.
The bombs, each estimated to have contained 88 pounds of explosives and attributed by security officials to a Basque separatist group called ETA, caused panic and widespread damage to buildings.
Six of the dead were soldiers, including five senior officers traveling in a military van that took the full force of the first remote-controlled blast at 8:15 a.m. The seventh victim was the civilian driver of the van.
The second explosion occurred exactly an hour later on one of Madrid’s most fashionable shopping streets and within a few hundred yards of the U.S. Embassy. Three people were injured in this explosion.
If the attacks were the work of ETA, they would mark the deadliest strike by the separatist organization in more than a year.
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