Today the Basque terrorist organization carried out its threat against socialist party members by bombing a socialist headquarters in the Pe\u00f1a neighbourhood of Bilbao. <\/p>\n
The explosion injured seven Ertzainas (the Basque police), and widespread material damage to the surrounding buildings where the bomb was went off. The bomb also led to the water supply to the area being cut off. <\/p>\n
At around 5 am a police patrol discovered a briefcase hanging off the door handle to the Basque Socialist Party headquarters with \u2018danger bomb\u2019 written on it. Following this discovery the police took the precautionary steps of evacuating the area. Half an hour later the \u2018Association for Road Assistance\u2019 received a call from ETA warning that a bomb would explode at 6 am near to the Basque Socialist Party Headquarters. <\/p>\n
According to the Home Office seven Ertzainas were injured in the explosion although non of the injuries are considered to be serious. The bomb blast also caused serious damage to the \u2018Casa del Pueblo\u2019 where it was placed and damage to neighbouring buildings as well as damage to several vehicles parked nearby. In addition, the explosion affected a pipe carrying water which led to water supplies to the area being cut off. Urgent repair work to restore supplies is still being carried out. <\/p>\n
This is the fifth bombing that ETA has carried out against the socialists and the third against a socialist party headquarters in Vizcaya since the end of the ceasefire. It is the first bombing since the assassination of the ex councillor for Arrasate, Isa\u00edas Carrasco. <\/p>\n
In its last communication published in the newspaper Gara on 2nd April ETA threatened socialist party members and warned the president, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, that there would be neither \u2018stability or peace\u2019 while the right of the Basque people to self-determination is not recognised\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today the Basque terrorist organization carried out its threat against socialist party members by bombing a socialist headquarters in the Pe\u00f1a neighbourhood of Bilbao. The explosion injured seven Ertzainas (the Basque police), and widespread material damage to the surrounding buildings where the bomb was went off. The bomb also led to the water supply to the area being cut off. At around 5 am a police patrol discovered a briefcase hanging off the door handle to the Basque Socialist Party headquarters with \u2018danger bomb\u2019 written on it. Following this discovery the police took the precautionary steps of evacuating the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"yoast_head":"\n