Bomb Injures 33 at Airport in Spain
A bomb that Spain’s ETA separatists said they had planted injured 33 people, four of them seriously, on Saturday at an airport in Reus, regional officials said.
The bomb went off in the international passenger waiting area five minutes after the daily newspapers Egin and Avui received a warning call from the rebel group, which seeks Basque independence.
Thirty people have been hospitalized as a result of the blast.
Two other bombs for which the ETA claimed responsibility exploded shortly afterward at resort hotels in Cambrils and Salou on the eastern coast. But police had had time to clear the area, and no one was injured.
Reus is just inland from the east coast town of Tarragona, about 50 miles south of Barcelona.
ETA has claimed responsibility for a series of small bomb attacks this month at tourist sites in Spain. None of them caused any injury.
The group has killed about 800 people since 1968, when it began its violent drive for independence.
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