| Assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Basque conflict | |
| Location | Guernica, Spain |
| Date | 8 October 1977 12:50 (UTC+2) |
| Target | Augusto Unceta Barrenechea |
Attack type | Machine gun attack |
| Deaths | 3 |
| Perpetrators | ETA |
No. of participants | 3 |
The assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea was an attack by the Basque separatist group ETA which took place on 8 October 1977 in Guernica in the Basque Country in northern Spain.
Three ETA members carrying pistols and submachine guns killed Unceta, the Government appointed President of the Provincial Deputation of Biscay and Mayor of Guernica.[1] He was ambushed as he arrived to play his weekly sports game. His two bodyguards, Antonio Hernández Fernández-Segura and Ángel Rivera Navarrón[2] were also killed in the attack, which was ETA's deadliest of 1977. The attack heralded an upsurge in the use of violence by ETA in subsequent years.