Police found two more stashes of explosives in the Basque Country today as rescue workers tried to recover the body of a second man killed by a huge ETA car bomb at Madrid airport last Saturday.
The bombing shattered a nine-month Basque peace process, and the discovery of more explosives has Spain worried that ETA could strike again. Police in the northern Basque region, which ETA wants to be independent, found two packets of explosives weighing a total of 80kg in the town of Atxondo.
Yesterday, they found 100kg of explosives ready for use. "We also found ... various manuals that are typically used by the terrorist group ETA to make explosive devices," the Basque police said in a statement, adding that they were still searching for more material.
Also today, police received a phone call saying there was a bomb at Bilbao airport. "The police searched the area but found nothing. It seems to have been a false alarm," a spokesman said.
In Madrid, rescuers worked to get through tonnes of rubble and recover the body of Diego Armando Estacio, one of the first two people to be killed by ETA since May 2003.
Both victims of the bomb were Ecuadorean immigrants.
