Spanish police arrest two ETA suspects
Spanish police arrested at least two suspected Basque separatists today, and local media linked them to a bombing attempt at a hotel in Pamplona during the San Fermin Festival.
The Interior Ministry office would only confirm that at least two people were arrested in the raid in the northern Navarra region.
But the national news agency Efe quoted police as saying the suspects may have been behind Sunday’s attempted bombing in which nine pounds of explosives were placed in a hotel in the old quarter of Pamplona as the city hosted the annual running of the bulls.
Bomb disposal experts defused the bomb. They were alerted by a caller identifying himself as a member of the armed Basque separatist group Eta.
Eta has been blamed for more than 800 deaths in a three decade campaign of shootings and bombings aimed at carving out an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and south-west France.
