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Article: Britons injured in Spanish bomb blast
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1996
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Forty-five British holidaymakers were injured in a bomb
explosion at a Spanish airport last night. The Basque separatist
group ETA said it carried out the attack.
The tourists were caught in the blast at the Costa Brava airport
of Reus, west of Tarragona, as they waited for flights taking them
home to Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham.
Most suffered minor cuts but early today at least 22 of them,
including a six-year-old boy believed to have serious leg injuries,
were detained in local hospitals.
About 900 tourists travelling with Thomson holidays on
"changeover day" were in the airport when the bomb went off in the
passenger waiting area. It was thought to have been hidden in a
waste bin ...