Bomb Damages Court in Basque Capital
A car bomb blamed on Basque separatists exploded in the regional capital of Vitoria, causing $1 million in damage to a courthouse, burning cars and ending more than a month of relative peace.
The Basque government said one person was hurt by flying glass.
Basque leader Juan Jose Ibarretxe blamed the armed separatist group ETA. It was the first bomb attack attributed to the ETA, an acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom, since Aug. 27, when a car bomb exploded in a parking garage at Madrid’s Barajas airport.
The ETA has been blamed for more than 800 killings in its 32-year-old campaign for an independent Basque homeland straddling northern Spain and southwestern France.
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