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| Car Bomb Blast Kills Two People in Spain |
| 2003-05-30 |
| A car bomb exploded in northern Spain on Friday, killing two police officers and prompting the prime minister to cancel plans to attend a summit in Russia. A third police officer was severely wounded and a fourth man who was standing near their car suffered minor injuries in the early afternoon attack in the town of Sanguesa in Navarra province. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Deputy Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the bomb was set by ETA, a group that often uses car bombs in its campaign for a Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwest France. Got their fingerprints all over it "ETA has murdered once again," Rajoy said in Madrid, vowing to use "all means at our disposal" to fight the group. Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar called off his trip to St. Petersburg, where he planned to attend a summit with Russia and the European Union, officials said. Navarra province borders the troubled Basque region and is home to many Basque nationalists. The explosion came five days after Basque local elections that excluded hundreds of pro-independence candidates allegedly linked to ETA's outlawed political wing. Lose an election, resume the bombing. SOP. |
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