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Two dead in explosion Spain police barracks

The explosion occurred at 1350 local time (1150 GMT) a few kilometers from the palace Miravent, where the royal family enjoys the traditional summer vacation.

The Spanish government delegate in the island, Ramon Socias, said that the working hypothesis with the authorities is that this is a roving command of the armed group moved to the island to place the bomb, which exploded at a barracks of the Guardia Civil in Palmanova, on the municipality of Calvia, one of the most tourist Mallorca.

The explosion was very strong, and a vehicle with flames leaping through the air, witnesses reported.

The first thing we saw was a huge explosion. We raced over there to see if we could help (…) a terrain had flown through the air. She was a fellow who was badly wounded at reviving or died on the road, said one witness, named Paco, a RNE.

At 19.30 local time a controlled explosion took place when members of the Guardia Civil of Spain defused another bomb .

This is the first fatal attack that occurs in the Balearic Islands and it happened a day after the alleged separatist Basque ETA group attacking the house of the Civil Guard barracks in Burgos, northern Spain, causing 46 minor injuries and material damage.

As said the Minister (of Interior) are becoming more desperate and more dangerous, said Ramon Socias, government delegate in the Balearic Isles, the string Ser

The Minister of Health, Trinidad Jimenez and Industry Minister, Miguel Sebastian, the Government condemned in the last action attributed to ETA The first deadly from that in June the group killed a police inspector Eduardo Puelles with placing a bomb beneath his car in Bilbao.

is attributed to ETA killed over 800 in the last 40 years, amid a campaign to establish an independent Basque country in northern Spain and southern France.

The Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero suspended peace talks with ETA after the group killed two people with a car bomb at Madrid airport in December 2006.

Zapatero condemned what he termed new turpitude and said that the government has instructed security forces to the most extreme vigilance (…) to protect themselves from these despicable murderers.

Those who are now detained, who face long prison sentences, are pointing the way to expect the perpetrators of these attacks, he said in a statement at the Palacio de La Moncloa.

They may not escape, pass their lives in prison, he said.

The Lehendakari (leader of the Basque Government) in office, Isabel Cela said that authorities will not relent in their commitment to see those responsible for this assassination and all the members of ETA in jail and called to repudiate the merger made on Friday.

There will be no room for impunity. We can not leave a window or under or understanding of terrorist violence. Basques have a collective responsibility to denounce violence, to isolate the violent, he said while reading a declaration.

(Reporting by Itziar Reinlein and Teresa Larraz, correspondent of Madrid)