Terror group is blamed after nine hurt in two separate blasts
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has warned of the threat of terrorist activity in Spain after nine people including a Briton were hurt in two bomb blasts in Spain.
Hotels in Alicante and Benidorm were targeted in yesterday’s attacks, which have widely been blamed on the Basque separatist group Eta. The British woman hurt in the Alicante attack was not seriously injured but was taken to hospital for stitches to a small wound; it later transpired that the Lord Mayor of Belfast was just yards from the Hotel Nadal in Benidorm when it was bombed but he was not injured.
A Spanish government spokesman said the terror group was being “driven into a corner” after recent arrests of Eta members and that it had suffered “important blows” in recent months.
The FCO website, at www.fco.gov.uk/travel, states: “You should be alert to the existence of street crime and to the activities of the Basque terrorist group ETA. Spain also shares with the rest of the world, including the UK, an increased threat from terrorist incidents of international origin. You should therefore remain vigilant. But the vast majority of visits to Spain are trouble-free.”
