Car Bomb Blast Kills Two In Spain

A car-bomb blast killed two people Tuesday in the Basque town of Vitoria in northern Spain Tuesday, news reports said.

The explosion occurred shortly after 4:30 p.m. on a university campus about 200 yards from the headquarters of the president of the Basque regional government, the Europa Press news agency said, quoting witnesses.

In December, the Basque separatist group ETA announced an end to a 14-month truce, sparking fears of a resurgence of separatist violence in Spain. ETA has killed an estimated 800 people in their 32-year-old struggle for independence for the region, which straddles the border of France and Spain.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed a man and a woman, reports said.

ETA was blamed for a car-bomb blast in Madrid on Jan. 21 that killed an army colonel.

An estimated 1.1 million people marched through downtown Madrid two days after that blast in an emotional call for peace.