Policeman dies in museum raid

Bilbao - A Spanish policeman died of gunshot wounds yesterday, a day after he was shot in a foiled attack on the new Guggenheim…

Bilbao - A Spanish policeman died of gunshot wounds yesterday, a day after he was shot in a foiled attack on the new Guggenheim museum in Bilbao by ETA Basque separatist guerillas.

The attack was foiled five days before the Guggenheim's inauguration by the Spanish king and queen in Bilbao, industrial centre of the troubled Basque region in Northern Spain.

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