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Sonic booms rattle Spanish city | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
Two loud booms rattled windows and shook residents of Malaga in southern Spain before officials confirmed the cause as a low-flying plane, not bombs. | |
"It was very loud and it sounded like a bomb but it's a false alarm," a government spokesman said. | |
Media initially reported two "explosions", saying people had rushed to their windows and the mobile phone network went dead. | |
Northern Spain recently saw bomb attacks blamed on Basque militants. | |
Conchita Vila, the owner of El Tubo bar in Malaga, said the noise had shaken her apartment. | |
"It scared me," she told the Associated Press. | |
"I live on the first floor and the whole house moved." | |
The reason for the jet flight was not clear. There are several Spanish military bases and an American air force base not far from Malaga. |