French police have arrested three suspected members of Basque separatist guerrilla group Eta in the skiing resort of Le Corbier after a wave of bombings in Spain which killed two people, Spanish media said today.
The three detained in the southern France town were among the Spanish government's most-wanted criminals, reports said.
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El Paissaid one suspect, Alberto Machain Beraza, was thought to have been involved in two attacks in July, one which injured 46 people at a Civil Guards barracks in northern Spain and another that killed two Spanish Civil Guards on the island of Mallorca.
No one at the Interior Ministry was available to comment.
Eta is seeking a separate Basque homeland carved out of Northern Spain and Southern France, and has killed more than 800 people over the past four decades as part of its campaign.
Reuters