| Zaragoza barracks bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Basque conflict | |
  Zaragoza barracks bombing (Aragon)  Zaragoza barracks bombing (Spain)  Zaragoza barracks bombing (Europe) | |
| Location | Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain |
| Date | 11 December 1987 06:10 (UTC+1) |
| Target | Guardia Civil agents and their families |
Attack type | Car bombing |
| Deaths | 11 |
| Injured | 88 |
| Perpetrators | ETA |
No. of participants | 4 |
A car bomb attack was carried out by the Basque separatist organisation ETA on 11 December 1987. A vehicle containing 250 kilograms (550 lb) of ammonal was parked beside the main Guardia Civil barracks in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain; its explosion killed 11 people, including 5 children. Another 88 people were injured, the majority of them civilians.[1]
The attack came almost six months after ETA had killed 21 people and injured 45 more in a car bomb attack on a Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona. Most of the killed were women and children who were burnt by the high temperatures the explosion provoked.[2][3]
Responsibility for the attack was placed on the Argala Commando Unit, an itinerant unit composed of French citizens who inmediately returned to France after committing attacks. Those involved in the attacks and those responsible for their planning were detained in a number of police operations during 1989 and 1992.[4]
- ^ Montserrat, Concha (2 August 2009). "Zaragoza: cinco ataúdes blancos". El País (in Spanish). Prisa. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ Torices, Alfonso (26 July 2003). "Condenan a los etarras que cometieron el atentado de Hipercor a 790 años". Diario de León (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ Peña, Federico (1 July 2003). "´Santi Potros´ y Caride culpan a otros de las muertes de Hipercor". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Grupo Zeta. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ Valero, Fernando (11 December 2002). "El atentado de la casa cuartel cumple 15 años, con su instigador en libertad". El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). Grupo Zeta. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2011.