The Spanish Civil Guard on Friday captured an alleged leader of a far-left group along with two other suspected members, said the authorities.

One of the three arrested was Juan Garcia Martin, the alleged leader of the October 1 Anti-Fascist Resistance Group (GRAPO).

Martin, his lover Carmen Cayetano Navarro and another GRAPO member Maria Arazanzu Diaz Villar were captured in a raid in Reus, a town in northeastern Spain.

"GRAPO was practically decapitated," by this operation, the authorities said, hoping this raid would stifle any potential terrorist acts.

The three were suspected of being involved in several robberies and a shooting.

The group, founded in 1975, has been blamed for over 80 killings in the 1970s and 1980s, and 19 members have been arrested since the group's former leader was captured in Paris in 2002.

However, it has slowly put itself together again over the last four years and claimed responsibility for the Feb. 6 attack in Aragon in which one person was killed and another one severely injured.

GRAPO is listed as a terrorist group by both the United States and the European Union.

Source: Xinhua