2000 Madrid bombing | |
Partof: | Basque conflict |
Location: | Madrid, Spain |
Date: | 30 October 2000 |
Time: | 07:15 a.m. |
Type: | Bombing |
Fatalities: | 4 |
Injuries: | 64 |
Victim: | --> |
Perpetrator: | ETA |
Weapons: | Car bomb |
Dfen: | --> |
-->}}On 30 October 2000, the separatist Basque organization ETA detonated a large car bomb on Badajoz Avenue in Madrid, Spain.[1] The blast killed three people;[2] a Spanish Supreme Court judge, Francisco Querol Lombardero, his driver, and his bodyguard.[3] One of the injured, a bus driver, died from his injuries days later. Sixty-four people were wounded.[4] It was the deadliest attack since the ETA called off its ceasefire in December 1999 and one of numerous attacks in Madrid.[5]