Police find bomb in Basque region days after blast killed man in Madrid

POLICE in the Basque region said yesterday they had found a bomb in northern Spain, five days after a car bombing in Madrid that was blamed on the separatist group ETA and killed one person.

Nearly 220 pounds of explosives were found in a drum near an abandoned car outside the Basque town of Amorebieta, and they were rigged to be used in an attack, a spokesman for the Basque police said.

The Basque interior department said the explosives found yesterday were ready for “immediate” use and only lacked a detonator.