BOMB FOUND 17 YEARS LATE.

Byline: By MARK ELLIS Mark Ellis is the name of:

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, Foreign Editor

AN unexploded bomb planted 17 years ago in a resort popular with British tourists has been uncovered.

Workmen refurbishing a bathroom after a fire found the device inside a tube left in a false ceiling.

The area was evacuated and disposal experts removed the device.

Designed to target holidaymakers, the bomb was one of three planted in Costa Blanca in 1991 by Basque separatist group ETA.

Two exploded in a restaurant and hotel - luckily without injuries - but the third failed to detonate det·o·nate
intr. & tr.v. det·o·nat·ed, det·o·nat·ing, det·o·nates
To explode or cause to explode.

[Latin d . The dynamite-packed explosive was not found despite a six-hour search of the Hotel Cano in Torrevieja - an area home to thousands of expats.

A Spanish government

Chief of State
King Juan Carlos I, since November 22 1975
Head of Government
President of the Government: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, elected 14 March 2004.

spokeswoman said yesterday: "It was well hidden and badly deteriorated."

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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	Jan 12, 2008
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