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Car bomb targets Spain university | Car bomb targets Spain university |
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A car bomb has exploded in a university car park in Pamplona, northern Spain. | A car bomb has exploded in a university car park in Pamplona, northern Spain. |
There were no reports of deaths in the blast, which happened at 1110 (1010 GMT), but at least 15 people were injured and some cars were set ablaze. | |
The University of Navarra is near the Basque Country, where Eta separatists are continuing a violent campaign for independence from Spain. | The University of Navarra is near the Basque Country, where Eta separatists are continuing a violent campaign for independence from Spain. |
Local officials said they had received a vague telephone warning, purportedly from Eta, before the blast. | |
"Eta has once again displayed its vileness," said Jose Antonio Alonso, spokesman for the governing Socialist party. | |
It followed the arrest on Tuesday of four suspected Eta members - three of them in Pamplona. Guns and a large quantity of explosives were also seized in the raids. | |
The bomb exploded in a car park at the university, setting cars on fire and blowing out the windows of nearby buildings. | |
"Suddenly the whole building shook and there was a huge column of smoke. It was tremendous, a huge explosion," Aparicio Caicedo, a 29-year-old Ecuadoran studying at the university, told the Associated Press news agency. | |
"There were other small explosions after the fire set off the fuel tanks in the parked cars nearby," said Bernardino Leon, a University of Navarra professor. | |
The blast prompted an evacuation of the Roman Catholic university. | |
It was the sixth time it had been targeted in such an attack, AFP news agency reported. | |
The Navarra region is separate from the Basque Country, but nationalists argue that it should also form part of an independent Basque homeland. | |
Eta's four-decade separatist campaign to set up a state straddling northern Spain and south-western France has led to more than 800 deaths. | |
The group resumed its campaign of violence in December 2006, following the failure of secret dialogue with Spain's Socialist government. | The group resumed its campaign of violence in December 2006, following the failure of secret dialogue with Spain's Socialist government. |