Madrid Bombing Raises ETA Concerns
At least four people were injured when a car bomb exploded at the Madrid airport on Saturday. If the separatist group ETA is responsible, as the Spanish government has charged, the blast would signal the end of a cease-fire that began in March.
At least four people were injured when a car bomb exploded at the Madrid airport on Saturday. If the separatist group ETA is responsible, as the Spanish government has charged, the blast would signal the end of a cease-fire that began in March.
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Two police officers who were examining the vehicle parked close to terminal four were among those injured.
The government said Basque separatist group ETA had carried out the attack — ending a ceasefire declared in March.
The ETA ceasefire came after four decades of violence aimed at creating an independent Basque state in the north of the country.
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