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Vic bombing | |
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Part of the Basque conflict | |
Location | Vic, Catalonia, Spain |
Date | 29 May 1991 19:30 (UTC+1) |
Target | Guardia Civil barracks |
Attack type | Car bomb |
Deaths | 10[1] |
Injured | 44 |
Perpetrators | ETA |
No. of participants | 3 |
A bombing attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA on 29 May 1991 when a car bomb carrying more than 200 kg of explosive was detonated inside the courtyard of a Civil Guard barracks in the Catalan city of Vic, Spain. The bombing killed 10 people, including five children, and injured 44 people.[2][3]
Following the selection of Barcelona as the host of the 1992 Olympic Games, ETA launched a series of attacks in Catalonia to gain worldwide attention. Five months earlier, six police officers had been killed in a bomb attack in the city of Sabadell.[4]
The day after the bombing, two members of the ETA cell which carried out the attack were killed by the Civil Guard in a raid on a house at Lliçà d'Amunt, in the Province of Barcelona. Five members of ETA were also arrested.[5]