Car bomb injures 21 in Spanish University
31/10/2008 17:38
A car bomb exploded yesterday the parking lot of the University of Navarre
in northern Spain, injuring 21 and setting many vehicles ablaze.
Spanish
officials blamed the Basque separatist organization ETA for the
attack.
Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said a telephone
call in the name of ETA an hour before the blast had warned of a car bomb left
in the university, but "the one who put the bomb did not warn correctly or
wanted to mislead," making it impossible to deactivate the device.
Some 1,000
students were in the nearby buildings when the 70-80 kg of explosives went off,
and it could have led to a terrible tragedy, Perez added.
The University of
Navarre is in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, close to Basque country, a
repeated target of bomb attacks by ETA separatists.
The bomb attack came just
two days after Spanish police arrested four suspected ETA guerrillas, but Perez
did not make any declaration on the possible relation between the two
events.
ETA are said to have killed more than 800 people in four decades of
armed struggle for independence of ancient Basque territories in Spain and
France, including Navarre.
University officials said there were new bomb
warnings after the explosion, causing an evacuation of students in all buildings
of the university.
Xinhua
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