A Swiss woman detained by Spanish authorities and taken to a hospital with her 10-month-old son allegedly cut the boy’s throat with a hidden knife and killed him after receiving permission to give him a bath, Spain’s Civil Guard said today.

GARDAÍ yesterday said they had no information to confirm reports that a missing gangster had been chopped up by his killers in Spain.

An Irish man was due to appear in court after his his wife was found battered to death at a holiday villa on the Costa Blanca in Spain, it emerged tonight.

Spanish police have arrested an Irishman on suspicion of pushing his wife down the stairs of their home in the city of Alicante.

DETECTIVES continued to question the daughter of jailed crime boss John Gilligan yesterday after she was stopped at Dublin Airport carrying a suitcase stuffed with €20,000 in cash.

Explosives experts combing a Costa Blanca beach today found a bomb planted by the Basque separatist group ETA, the government said.

There has been an explosion at a beach resort in south-eastern Spain following a call in the name of Basque separatists ETA warning of a car bomb.

The Spanish Government has said a Basque terrorist who accidentally blew herself up at a beach resort near Alicante was planning to attack tourists.