Police in Portugal found nearly 1.5 tons of bomb-making materials in a house used by suspected militants from armed Basque separatist group ETA, Spain’s interior ministry said Saturday. Experts said the raid on the cache – if confirmed to belong to ETA – would deal a strategic blow to the armed group’s suspected bid to set up a rear base across the Spanish border in Portugal.
A Spanish ministry statement said: “Portuguese security forces have seized nearly 1.5 tons of explosives in the house used by the terrorist group ETA in Portugal.” They also found empty cases that could be used to make sucker-bombs.
via AFP
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