DATE=8/20/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=SPAIN / VIOLENCE (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-265700
BYLINE=GIL CARBAJAL
DATELINE=MADRID
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: In Spain, two police officers (a man and a
woman) were killed early Sunday in a bomb attack. Gil
Carbajal reports from Madrid that officials are blaming
the attack on a Basque separatist group, the ETA.
TEXT: The police officers were killed as their four-
wheel drive vehicle was blown up just before dawn.
Their deaths bring to eleven the number of killings
blamed on the Basque terrorist organization since it
called off a 14-month ceasefire last December.
The latest deaths occurred in the small town of Sallent
Gallego in the Pyrenees mountains seven kilometers from
the French border. Police say ETA is known to use the
remote border area to transport personnel, arms and
explosives from France. (OPT) Last week a car loaded
with 100 kilos of explosives was abandoned by a woman
driver along a highway in the province after it
developed motor problems. (END OPT)
Spanish security forces continue to crack down on ETA's
infrastructure in the Basque Country. On Saturday,
Basque police arrested three suspected ETA members, two
women and a man, in the regional capital of Vitoria.
Police say a search of their residences uncovered arms,
ammunition, and explosives.
ETA's campaign for an independent Basque state
straddling northern Spain and southern France has been
especially intense this summer. It has included a car
bomb in central Madrid, and the killings of a town
councilman in Malaga, a Socialist politician in Tolosa,
a businessman near Bilbao, and an army officer near
Pamplona. (Signed)
NEB/GC/DW/KL
20-Aug-2000 12:53 PM EDT (20-Aug-2000 1653 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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