BOMB EXPLODES IN AIRPORT IN SPAIN, INJURING 33 PEOPLE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A bomb exploded Saturday in the passenger lounge of an airport in northeast Spain, injuring 33 people, most of them British tourists. Two other bombs planted in luxury hotels were found in time and detonated without injury. The Basque Basque Spanish Vasco Member of a people of unknown origin living in Spain and France along the Bay of Biscay and in the western Pyrenees mountains in the region of the Basque Country. About 850,000 true Basques live in Spain and another 130,000 in France. separatist group ETA telephoned warnings of the bombs to newspapers, but police said they had only five minutes' lead time before the first explosion. Police had barely begun evacuating 1,000 people from the Reus airport The Reus Airport (IATA: REU, ICAO: LERS) is located by the beaches of Costa Daurada, equidistant in relation to the towns of Constantí and Reus and approximately 7.5 km from the city of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. at Tarragona, 40 miles south of Barcelona, when the bomb exploded in a trash can In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. outside a restaurant in the passenger lounge. Four people - three Britons and a Spanish cleaning woman at the airport - were in serious condition, doctors said. One of the victims was a 6-year-old boy. Pools of blood, a doll and a large hole in the ceiling of the passenger lounge were left in the wake of the early evening blast. The 24 Britons who were wounded had been about to board flights to Manchester and Birmingham, England, after spending holidays on the popular Costa Dorada beach. Police were able to evacuate e·vac·u·ate v. 1. To empty or remove the contents of. 2. To excrete or discharge waste matter, especially of the bowels. the two hotels in the nearby beach towns of Salou and Cambrills on the outskirts of Tarragona and find the bombs, said Alex Marti, a spokesman for the Tarragona municipal government. |
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