Bilbao - A large car-bomb, attributed by the police to the Basque terrorist group ETA, caused massive damage to an office and apartment block in the northern Spanish city of Logrono yesterday, Paddy Woodworth reports. Only two people were slightly injured, but many families were trapped in their homes for several hours because the blast shattered the staircase in the first five stories.
The attack is ETA's first since its statement last week, in which it refused to consider another ceasefire and threatened to continue attacks on journalists. More than 300 Basque media workers signed a statement at the weekend which concluded: "Our executioners should know that we will continue working in our country in defence of the right to life, liberty and pluralism."