ETA alert sparks fear tourists will be targeted

POLICE evacuated thousands of holidaymakers from beaches at a Spanish Mediterranean resort yesterday after a purported ETA bomb threat raised fears of a summer bombing campaign by the Basque separatists.

Authorities reopened the beaches at the Catalan resort of Sant Carles de la Rapita after police scoured the port’s five beaches and failed to find explosives.

“Everything is back to normal,” the town’s deputy mayor Josep Pitarch said. “The Civil Guard searched all the beaches and the rubbish bins and they found nothing.”