Esplosione all'aereoporto di Madrid

[y4k]

Al Terminal 4 dell'aereoporto di Madrid c'è stata un'esplosione
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A quanto sembra, l'ETA ha reclamato l'attentato e ci sono stati feriti non gravi nel parcheggio
stay tuned...

[Leron]

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A powerful car bomb explosion at Spain's busiest airport Saturday was claimed by Basque separatist group ETA, officials said, casting doubt over a tentative cease-fire which earlier this year ended a decades-long bloody independence campaign.

Several people suffered minor injuries in the parking lot blast, which followed a warning to police, who were able to evacuate terminal four at Madrid's Barajas International Airport.

Two calls were received by police, a Spanish interior ministry official said, the first a warning, the second specifying the type of car and claiming it was the work of ETA.

An end to ETA's cease-fire would be a major blow to Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Terminal four, which serves Iberia Airlines and its partners, has been closed, although the airports three other terminals are still operating, the official said.

Witnesses described a huge column of smoke billowing out from the scene of the blast.

Samantha Graham, an employee of CNN's parent company who was in an airport concourse for a flight, said hundreds of people evacuated the terminal through jetways and have gathered outside on the airport tarmac. (Watch smoke billowing from airport Video)

ETA announced a "permanent" cease-fire last March, raising hopes for an end to nearly 40 years of separatist violence blamed for more than 800 deaths and thousands of injuries.

In the autumn, so-called low-level street violence resumed in the northern Basque region -- which ETA is seeking to make an independent nation -- as pro-ETA youths burned buses and automatic bank teller machines and carried out other attacks.

In late October, authorities blamed ETA for the theft in Nimes, southern France, of 350 pistols and revolvers and 10,000 rounds of ammunition from an arms factory.

Saturday's explosion, which came shortly after the execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, raised fears of a retaliatory strike in a country that has suffered attacks in response to its support for international military operations.

In March 2004, 191 people were killed by bomb attacks on Madrid commuter trains. Those attacks, blamed on al-Qaeda-linked militants, led to Spain's withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

Barajas airport is Spain's busiest, handling more than 40 million passengers a year, according to the airport's official Web site.

CNN's Madrid Bureau chief Al Goodman contributed to this report

[y4k]

stavo pensando, non è che è un falso reclamo? Dopo la morte di saddam quest'attentato...

[Fradetti]

Originariamente inviato da y4k

stavo pensando, non è che è un falso reclamo? Dopo la morte di saddam quest'attentato...

dopo la morte di saddam fai un autobomba all'aeroporto di madrid... quando si parla di logica

[dantes76]

ma non si era raggiunto un qualche tipo di accordo con l'eta?