Spanish Suspected Bomb Kills Two Police Officers in Majorca

By Emma Ross-Thomas

July 30 (Bloomberg) — A suspected bomb killed two Civil Guards in Majorca, Spain, an official at the police force’s Madrid office said.

“We don’t know if it was a car bomb or a backpack-bomb,” the official, who declined to be named in line with policy, said today in a phone interview.

Yesterday, a bomb packed into a van exploded outside the family quarters of a police barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos, in an attack that the government blamed on the terrorist group ETA. Majorca is a major tourist destination for European visitors and is also where Spain’s royal family goes on holiday.

ETA, whose initials in the Basque language stand for Euskadi ta Askatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Freedom, has been blamed for the deaths of more than 800 people in a four-decade campaign for an independent nation spanning the seven Basque- speaking provinces of Spain and southwestern France.

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