2009 Burgos bombing | |
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Part of the Basque conflict | |
Location | Burgos, Spain |
Date | 29 July 2009 4:30 – (UTC+2) |
Target | Civil Guard barracks |
Attack type | van bomb |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 65 |
A van bomb carrying more than 300 kg of explosive went off on 29 July 2009 outside a Civil Guard barracks in the northern city of Burgos, Spain, injuring at least 65 people. The attack was blamed on Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA).[1] Several children were among the 65 wounded in the attack.
Some days before the attack, Spanish police warned that the organization might be trying a series of van bomb attacks[2] after they found information of three vans being carried to Spain in a document seized from arrested members Asier Borrero, Itziar Plaza and Iurgi Garitagoitia a few weeks before the attack.[3][4]