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March 23, 1982: An ETA gun attack kills 2 police inspectors and a civilian in Sestao. [53] September 14, 1982: ETA's deadliest attack of the year occurs in Rentería, where they ambush and kill four police officers. May 28, 1983: 2 Civil Guards were killed by gunmen in Pamplona while guarding a post office. [54]
A number of ETA attacks by car bomb caused random civilian casualties, like ETA's bloodiest attack, the bombing in 1987 of the subterranean parking lot of the Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona [143] [144] which killed 21 civilians and left 45 seriously wounded, of whom 20 were left disabled; also the attack of Plaza de Callao in Madrid. [145]
ETA had begun intensifying attacks in the early 1990s in the run up to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona to try to gain wider publicity for their cause. [2] [3] This attack was the first that they had carried out in 1992 in Madrid and came weeks after the civil guard and Basque police had infiltrated an extortion ring set up to fund ETA.
Spain's High Court has sentenced a former member of the defunct Basque separatist group ETA to 85 years in prison for her involvement in a car bomb attack in Madrid that left 11 people injured 24 ...
The 1993 Madrid bombings were a coordinated attack of two car bombs by the the armed Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) in Madrid, Spain on 21 June 1993, killing 7 people and injuring a further 29. The target was an army vehicle transporting members of the army, killing six military passengers and the civilian driver.
During the two years before the attack, ETA detonated six car bombs in Barcelona that killed three people. [4]Up to this point, Spain's deadliest terrorist attack had been the El Descanso bombing in Madrid in 1985 by suspected Islamic militants which had killed 18 Spaniards and injured 82 others, including 11 American servicemen, who were believed to have been the target of the attack.
A car bomb attack was carried out by the armed Basque separatist group ETA in the Puente de Vallecas district of Madrid, Spain on 11 December 1995, which killed 6 people and injured a further 19. The target was a camouflaged army vehicle which was transporting nine civilian employees of the army towards the nearby motorway.
Mistakes happen on live TV, and Cher’s Today show flub was nothing short of hilarious. Cher, 78, accidentally dropped an F-bomb on air while chatting with Hoda Kotb about her new book, Cher: The ...