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An emergency number received a call at 6:15 a.m. (0515 GMT) reporting that explosives had been left by the courthouse in the leafy suburb of the Basque port city of Bilbao. The caller said he was speaking for ETA, a violent separatist group. A homemade device comprising a cooking pot, five kilograms (11 pounds) of explosives, a fuse and a timer, had been left inside a backpack beside the courtÂ’s main door, where it was defused, police said in a statement.
About eight hours later, the building was again cordoned off by police who deactivated a smaller device, thought by police to be a booby-trap bomb destined to cause injury to officers defusing the first bomb. Local residents heard three small explosions as experts deactivated the second, three kilogram (6.6 pounds) bomb, Basque television etb reported from the scene.