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Three bombs in Spain's Basque Country, ETA claim

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1 May 2008

MADRID (Reuters) - Three small bombs exploded early on Thursday in Spain's Basque city of San Sebastian and a nearby town after a warning call claiming to be from Basque separatist rebels ETA, Spanish local officials said.

The caller warned of the two bombs in San Sebastian but not of another device which exploded shortly afterwards in the town of Arrigorriaga, Guipuzcoa province.

There were no injuries.

Two bombs went off outside a Basque Justice and Employment Department building in San Sebastian and another blast took place near a Labour Ministry building in Arrigorriaga, coinciding with Workers' Day, which is a national holiday in Spain.

'The damage looks quite spectacular, there were some vehicles inside the building complex and the door has been blown off,' Arrigorriaga's Mayor, Alberto Ruiz, told state radio.

'But I don't think the damage is worth a lot,' he added.

The events also came one day after Judge Baltasar Garzon denied Basque MayoressInocencia Galparsoro bail and sent her to prison, pending trial, for supporting the aims of ETA.

The guerrilla group's last fatal attack was believed to be on March 7 when, two days before a general election, a former councillor from Spain's governing Socialist Party was shot dead in the Basque town of Mondragon, where Galparsoro is mayor.

ETA has killed more than 800 people in four decades of armed struggle for independence for the Basque Country from Spain.

(Reporting by Inmaculada Sanz; Writing by Elisabeth O'Leary; Editing by Stephen Weeks)

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