Police arrested at least two suspected Basque separatists Tuesday in the northern Navarra region, the government said. News reports linked them to a bombing attempt during the annual San Fermin Festival in Pamplona. The national news agency Efe quoted police as saying the suspects may have been behind a bomb scare Sunday in which nine pounds of explosives were placed in a Pamplona hotel as the city hosted the annual running of the bulls. A caller who identified himself as a member of the armed Basque separatist group ETA told police about the device and it was defused. ETA has been blamed for more than 800 deaths in a three-decade campaign of shootings and bombings aimed at carving out an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwest France. Full Story
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