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Authorities received a warning call at 7:50 a.m. British time that ETA guerrillas had planted the bomb and it would go off at 9:00 a.m. British time, police said. The 4-5 kg bomb exploded at 11:00 a.m. British time when the police robot moved the cardboard box containing it. "It was a booby trap bomb against the police with some kind of movement activated device," said a police spokesman.
The explosion appeared to be ETA's second attack in 2008 after a bomb hidden inside a backpack caused considerable damage to a courthouse in Spain's Basque region earlier this month.
Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, fighting to retain office in the March 9 election, faces criticism over failed ETA peace talks and has launched a crackdown on the Basque separatist rebels and their allies.
ETA has killed more than 800 people during its four decade campaign for an independent Basque state. The most recent deaths were in December, when ETA guerrillas shot dead two undercover Spanish policemen in southern France.