2002 Torrevieja bombing

On 9 August 2002, the Basque separatist organization, ETA, placed an explosive in the toilets of a hamburger restaurant, located a few meters from a tourist office, in the Alicante town of Torrevieja. No one died or was injured, although it caused serious material damage.^[1]

2002 Torrevieja bombing
Part of Basque conflict
Location	Torrevieja, Spain
Date	9 August 2002 (UTC+02:00)
Attack type	Bombing
Weapons	Bomb
Deaths	0
Injured	0
Perpetrator	ETA

ETA claimed responsibility for the attack through a call to the Basque newspaper Gara, and the group also said it had placed a bomb on the beach in Santa Pola, which was found days later in palm trees.^[2][3]

See also

• List of ETA attacks