ETA to blame for bombs - Minister

Powerful bombs ripped through three busy Madrid railway stations today just three days before general elections, killing at least 173 rush-hour commuters and wounding more than 600 in Spain’s worst terrorist attack. The government blamed the armed Basque separatist group ETA.

“ETA had been looking for a massacre in Spain,” Interior Minister Angel Acebes said after an emergency cabinet meeting, citing recent thwarted attacks.