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DeutschVic bombing
| Vic bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Basque conflict | |
| Location | Vic, Catalonia, Spain |
| Date | 29 May 1991 19:30 (UTC+1) |
| Target | Guardia Civil barracks |
Attack type | Car bomb |
| Deaths | 10[1] |
| Injured | 44 |
| Perpetrators | ETA |
No. of participants | 3 |
A bombing attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA on 29 May 1991 when a car bomb carrying more than 200 kg of explosive was detonated inside the courtyard of a Civil Guard barracks in the Catalan city of Vic, Spain. The bombing killed 10 people, including five children, and injured 44 people.[2][3]
Following the selection of Barcelona as the host of the 1992 Olympic Games, ETA launched a series of attacks in Catalonia to gain worldwide attention. Five months earlier, six police officers had been killed in a bomb attack in the city of Sabadell.[4]
The day after the bombing, two members of the ETA cell which carried out the attack were killed by the Civil Guard in a raid on a house at Lliçà d'Amunt, in the Province of Barcelona. Five members of ETA were also arrested.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Aizpeolea, Luis R. (13 March 2015). "There was no Basque conflict, just ETA totalitarianism". Retrieved 17 January 2019 – via elpais.com.
- ^ "Timeline: Major ETA Attacks in Spain". Associated Press. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ^ "Vic (Barcelona) recordará hoy a las víctimas del atentado de ETA en su casa cuartel". eleconomista.es. 13 June 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ "Atentados de ETA en Cataluña". elmundo.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ "Los terroristas fueron descubiertos al cometer una cadena de 'errores de aprendiz'". elpais.com (in Spanish). 31 May 1991. Retrieved 2010-09-05.