Man arrested in Spain over IRA attack in Germany

Police in southern Spain have arrested a suspected IRA man wanted in connection with a mortar attack on a British military base in Germany nine years ago.

The Spanish Interior Ministry said the man was arrested yesterday at a hotel in the resort of Torremolinos on foot of an arrest warrant issued in Germany.

The German authorities want to question him about the firing of three mortars at the British base in Osnabruck in June 1996.

Two of the devices failed to hit their target, while the third exploded but caused no deaths or injuries.