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Mutxamel Bombing
A car bombing was carried out by the Basque separatist organisation ETA (separatist group), ETA on 16 September 1991 in the town of Mutxamel () near Alicante. The target was the Civil Guard (Spain), Civil Guard barracks in the town. However the bomb initially failed to explode near its target. The police treated the car as an abandoned vehicle, not realising that it contained a bomb and while being towed away, the car bomb exploded, killing two police officers and the civilian towing the car away. The bombing was the deadliest of the 40 attacks which ETA carried out in the Province of Alicante between 1979 and 2004. The attack ETA had carried out similar attacks against Civil Guard barracks in 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing, Zaragoza in 1987, killing 12 people, and in Vic three and a half months before the Mutxamel attack, 1991 Vic bombing, killing ten people. The Mutxamel barracks was home to six Civil Guards, three of them married and living there with their families. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutxamel
Mutxamel (; ) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Alacantí, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur .... References Municipalities in the Province of Alicante Alacantí {{Valencia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Murders In Spain
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving fifteen sovereign republics and the CIS in its place. In July 1991, India abandoned its policies of dirigism, license raj and autarky and began extensive liberalisation to its economy. This increased GDP but also increased income inequality over the next two decades. A UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations fought against Iraq, which had invaded and annexed Kuwait in the previous year, 1990. The conflict would be called the Gulf War and would mark the beginning of a since-constant American military presence in the Middle East. The clash between Serbia and the other Yugoslav republics would lead into the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars, which ran through the rest of the decade. In the context of the apartheid, the year after the liberation of political prisoner Nelson Mandela, the Parliament of South Africa repeals the Population Registration Act, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
