Bomb injures 17 in Spain
Interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said a telephone call in the name of Basque separatist rebels ETA an hour before the blast had warned of a car bomb left in a university.
But while the caller identified the make and colour of the vehicle it did not specify the university, and police rushed to a campus in the Basque Country regional capital Vitoria.
The University of Navarre is in the city of Pamplona. “The result is that we could have had a terrible tragedy in the University of Navarre,” Rubalcaba told a news conference.
A pall of smoke billowed over the flaming wreckage of the vehicle used for the bomb, which detonated at about 11am local time, shattering nearby university windows as students sat in class.
The blast came just two days after Spanish police arrested four suspected ETA guerrillas they said had been planning attacks in the Navarre region.
