Spain: Basques Planned Fatal Attack
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MADRID, Spain — Police seized a van packed with explosives in southeastern France, thwarting a Basque separatist attack that was clearly intended to cause casualties, Spain’s interior minister said yesterday.
Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said the group ETA, which has killed more than 800 people since 1968, was planning to stage the attack sometime during Spain’s state of the nation parliamentary debate Tuesday and yesterday. The location and target of the planned bombing were unknown, he said.
Mr. Perez Rubalcaba said police in southeastern France seized the van packed with 310 pounds of chloratite-based explosives and detained three suspected ETA members on Monday.
