A policeman was killed and four injured in a car bomb explosion early Wednesday outside a civil guard barrack in northern Spain.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said there were 29 people, including five children inside the barracks in the village of Legutiano when the bomb attack occurred at 3:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT).
Two policemen kept trapped inside the building. One of them died, the other was injured and three other agents suffered minor wounds, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
The Basque separatist organization ETA was behind the bomb attack. ETA usually informed by phone before taking actions like this, but at this time, there was not no information in advance, the spokesman said.
Rubalcaba said ETA planned to carry out a massacre, which signified its indiscriminate nature to kill civilians and children.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero called for political unity to defeat ETA. "Be together and united, we will bring a closer end to ETA," he addressed at the parliament, condemning the latest attack as "cowardly, miserable and criminal."
ETA killed a Basque councilor of Mondragon on March 7, two days before Spain's general elections.
Source:Xinhua
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