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A bomb exploded on Friday in a fast-food restaurant in the tourist attraction center of Torrevieja, southeastern Spain, but resulted in no injuries, police said.
An anonymous phone caller who identified himself as a member of the separatist organization ETA warned that an explosive device was installed in the restaurant. This allowed an anticipated evacuation, the police said.
The presumed ETA member said there was another bomb planted on the Santa Paola Beach, north of Torrevieja, in Valencia Province. Experts were deployed to spot and deactivate the explosive.
Last Sunday a car bombing blamed on ETA killed two people and injured 40 in Santa Paola. ETA -- a Basque language acronym standing for Basque Homeland and Freedom -- has killed at least 800 people since its armed fight in 1968, Spanish authorities said.
The Spanish government Tuesday proposed having ETA's political arm, Batasuna, proscribed. Batasuna abstained from condemning the Sunday attack, but rejected government remarks linking it to ETA, although both organizations share the same independence goal.
ETA has been regarded as a terrorist organization by the Spanish government, the United States and the European Union (EU).
(Xinhua News Agency August 10, 2002)
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