One injured in Spanish car bomb blast

A powerful car bomb exploded outside a police station in northern Spain today after a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA, police said.

One officer was slightly injured.

The bomb went off in Calahorra in the Rioja region, in a area that had been filled with people attending a Good Friday religious procession.

But the Civil Guard station targeted in the attack and surrounding buildings were evacuated before the blast, Calahorra Mayor Javier Pagola said.

A police officer sustained a minor back injury from the force of the blast, Deputy Interior Minister Antonio Camacho said.

“ETA has opted to continue with violence and should know that all that awaits it is prison,” Camacho told reporters.