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Bomb blasts hit Spain's Majorca

Other News Materials 9 August 2009 23:47 (UTC +04:00)

There have been three bomb explosions on the Spanish island of Majorca, following a warning purported to be from the Basque separatist group, Eta.

Officials say the first bomb went off in a beachfront bar and restaurant in Palma-de-Majorca. No-one was injured, BBC reported.

Two further blasts occurred at another nearby restaurant and in a town square. No injuries were reported.

Eta earlier admitted responsibility for a bomb attack in Majorca last month which killed two Civil Guard officers.

On Sunday, the first bomb exploded in the toilet of a bar-restaurant called La Rigoletta, in the Paseo del Portitxol, in front of a beach called Can Pere Antoni, officials said.

They said the device was small and there were no injuries. Everyone had been evacuated from the restaurant and the area was later sealed off by police.

No details have been released about the second bomb blast, but reports in the Spanish media suggest it was a controlled explosion carried out by the police.

Laura Penn, who works for Luna Radio in Majorca, told the BBC that "a small device was found 500m from the first [bomb] shortly after; that was detonated in a controlled explosion".

The police later confirmed that a third bomb had gone off under the central square, the Plaza Mayor.

"But it was a small device, even weaker than the other two," a government spokesman in Mallorca was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

The website of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo said that the telephone warning before the first explosion had been made in the name of Eta.

El Pais newspaper said the warning had been received by a taxi company in the Basque region.

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