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Two people died and 25 others were wounded when a car bomb exploded Sunday in the southeastern resort town of Santa Pola, about 400 kilometers from Madrid, government sources said.
The blast, which occurred near a bus stop and outside the Civil Guard barracks, killed a 50-year-old man who was waiting at the bus stop and a 6-year-old girl who was playing in her bedroom in the barracks, the Interior Ministry said. The girl died when the blast caused furniture to fall on her.
At least 25 other people suffered injuries from the blast and two of them were in serious condition, reports said. Most of the wounded were civil guards and their relatives.
The explosion also reportedly caused serious damage to the Civil Guard barracks.
Police said that so far, the cause of the explosion has not been confirmed.
The Basque separatist group, ETA, however was blamed for the car bombing, reports said.
ETA is a Basque-language acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom. The group has claimed about 800 lives in its violent 33-year campaign to carve out an independent Basque homeland from a region straddling northern Spain and southwestern France.
(Xinhua News Agency August 5, 2002)
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