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MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Four small bombs exploded Tuesday near a power plant in the Basque region after a warning call from the separatist group ETA, the Basque Interior Ministry said.
The explosions occurred in the town of Amorebieta in Vizcaya province, the ministry said, adding that there were no casualties.
ETA called a Basque newspaper and warned that four bombs would go off at the power plant, and workers at the plant were evacuated before the explosion, the ministry said.
ETA has staged nearly a dozen non-lethal attacks since the Spanish government announced in May that it would hold talks with the group if it renounced violence.
The explosions are widely seen as a show of force designed to gain negotiating leverage if talks are held.
ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths since the late 1960s in a campaign of shootings and bombings aimed at forcing the government to allow creation of an independent Basque homeland.
It has not killed anyone since a car bombing in May 2003.
The government says ETA has been decimated by arrests in recent years and cites this and the lack of any fatal attacks as justification for seeking talks on ending the conflict.
However, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero insists he will only negotiate terms for ETA's dissolution and the status of more than 500 ETA prisoners in Spanish jails -- not make political concessions toward independence.
The explosions occurred in the town of Amorebieta in Vizcaya province, the ministry said, adding that there were no casualties.
ETA called a Basque newspaper and warned that four bombs would go off at the power plant, and workers at the plant were evacuated before the explosion, the ministry said.
ETA has staged nearly a dozen non-lethal attacks since the Spanish government announced in May that it would hold talks with the group if it renounced violence.
The explosions are widely seen as a show of force designed to gain negotiating leverage if talks are held.
ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths since the late 1960s in a campaign of shootings and bombings aimed at forcing the government to allow creation of an independent Basque homeland.
It has not killed anyone since a car bombing in May 2003.
The government says ETA has been decimated by arrests in recent years and cites this and the lack of any fatal attacks as justification for seeking talks on ending the conflict.
However, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero insists he will only negotiate terms for ETA's dissolution and the status of more than 500 ETA prisoners in Spanish jails -- not make political concessions toward independence.
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