MADRID, August 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility on Sunday for a series of bomb attacks in June and July that killed three people, CNN reported.
Two police officers were killed on July 30 in an explosion outside barracks on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, a popular tourist destination.
Less than two days before that, sixty-five people, including two pregnant women and six children, were injured when a truck exploded in the city of Burgos.
On June 19, a car bomb exploded in an open-air parking lot in the Basque town of Arrigorriaga, some 30 miles south of the largest Basque town of Bilbao, killing a police officer.
ETA, which was founded in 1959 and marked its 50th anniversary on July 31, is recognized as a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States. The group is known to have killed over 820 people in the past 50 years while fighting for an independent Basque state.
Western media reported on Sunday that a small bomb had exploded in a restaurant on the island of Mallorca after a telephone warning from ETA, and that no one was hurt in the blast.
