A Spanish army general, seriously hurt in an ETA bomb attack last month, has died from his injuries. Sixty-two-year-old General Justo Oreja Pedraza, sustained burns to 50% of his body following the explosion, on 28 June, of a remote-controlled device hidden in a backpack on a parked bicycle near his home in central Madrid.
Meanwhile the Basque news agency Vasco Press has reported that ETA claimed responsibility for a bomb and four petrol bomb attacks in the capital overnight. The targets were police, a trade union official, a radio station and an insurance company. ETA officials have described the attacks as part of "a day of battle" in homage to an activist who was blown up by her own bomb on Tuesday in the seaside resort of Torrevieja, near Alicante.
In Barcelona, a bank has been hit by a second bomb attack in two days. The device exploded early this morning and police say it caused damage but no injuries. Three people were injured in the first attack on the bank, thought to be the work of a radical Catalan group.
