Reports: Bomb explodes in hotel in southeastern Spanish resort town

[Cooley Hurd]

Reports: Bomb explodes in hotel in southeastern Spanish resort town

The Associated Press

January 30, 2005, 9:38 AM EST

MADRID, Spain -- A bomb exploded Sunday in a resort hotel on the Mediterranean coast in southeast Spain, news reports said. There was no immediate word on casualties.

The bomb detonated in the Hotel Port Denia around 3:15 p.m., the news agency Efe reported.

[xchrom]

1. oh my god

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. update: warning from ETA, hotel evacuated

"A bomb exploded Sunday in a resort hotel on the Mediterranean coast in southeast Spain after a telephone warning from the Basque separatist group ETA, Interior Ministry officials said.
...
Efe quoted police as saying the warning call was placed to police in the Basque region. The hotel was immediately evacuated and the bomb exploded about 30 minutes later."

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Reports: Bomb Explodes in Hotel in Spain

Sunday January 30, 2005 2:46 PM

MADRID, Spain (AP) - A bomb exploded Sunday in a resort hotel on the Mediterranean coast in southeast Spain, news reports said. There was no immediate word on casualties.

The bomb detonated in the Hotel Port Denia around 3:15 p.m., the news agency Efe reported.

The town of Denia is located in the Spanish region of Alicante on the Costa Blanca.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4766248,00.html

[ck4829]

4. This sounds like the Basques to me

[lebkuchen]

5. Terrible

I hope they never hit the tranquility of Cadaques.

[Blue_Tires]

6. why does the ETA always warn somebody before

blowing something up?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. because they keep public sympathy that way

if they don't injure the public, but just destroy property, people think much better of them.