SPAIN: BARCELONA: CAR BOMB EXPLOSION
TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/1227
IN_TIME: 10:15:15
LENGTH: 02:46
SOURCES: EFE
RESTRICTIONS:
FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY)
SCRIPT: Spanish/Nat
XFA
A car bomb exploded early on Thursday in the northeastern city of Barcelona, slightly injuring two people, authorities said.
The bomb went off downtown around 1 a-m (0000 GMT) in Gandesa street near a Hilton hotel, said an Interior Ministry spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Two men - one municipal employee and a security guard were slightly injured, he said.
The security guard was taken to a hospital with shrapnel wounds, while the other man was treated at the scene.
The Interior Ministry spokesman said an anonymous caller to the Barcelona daily newspaper Avui had telephoned a warning and claimed responsibility on behalf of the Basque separatist group ETA.
Julia Garcia Val de Casas, the Interior Ministry's top representative in Barcelona, Spain's second largest city, said the bombing did not cause any major damage, but it could be heard for 3 kilometres (2 miles).
A national television network reported that Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar was scheduled to visit Barcelona on Thursday morning to give a news conference near the site of the blast.
The Basque separatist group ETA has frequently used car bombs as part of its 32-year- old campaign for Basque independence, in which some 800 people have been killed.
The attack, the second in Barcelona this year, came three days after another car bomb in a busy residential area in Madrid killed a supreme court judge, his driver and a police escort, and injured more than 60 people.
Spanish authorities blame ETA for 19 deaths this year.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"It seems that two are slightly injured. They are a traffic policeman and a security guard who was here looking after the offices. The traffic policeman had received the warnings and gone to warn the person who was nearby and at that moment it went off.
Q: There was a warning?
There was a call yes, some calls."
SUPER CAPTION: Julia Garcia Val de Casas, Interior Ministry official
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"The phone call was at around 10 to 1 and the explosion was at 1 am, it seems, approximately.That 's from approximate and preliminary data."
SUPER CAPTION: Julia Garcia Val de Casas, Interior Ministry official
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"At five to one there was a huge explosion, we went outside, we saw three policemen and the man, the security guard, lying on the ground and we were told to go back inside and shut the door."
SUPER CAPTION: vox pop
SHOTLIST: Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2 2000
1. Ambulance driving through street
2. Police cordon
3. Close-up of part of car
4. Various shots police and firemen investigating wreckage
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Julia Garcia Val de Casas, Interior Ministry official
6. Garcia Val de Casas at crash site
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Julia Garcia Val de Casas, Interior Ministry official
8. Various shots police and firemen investigating wreckage
9. Street
10. Various shots police at scene
11. Firemen at crash site
12. Close-up contorted wreckage
13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Vox pop
14. Ambulances lining side of street?