| Vic bombing | |
| Location: | Vic, Catalonia, Spain |
| Target: | Guardia Civil barracks |
| Date: | 29 May 1991 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Timezone: | UTC+1 |
| Type: | Car bomb |
| Fatalities: | 10[1] |
| Injuries: | 44 |
| Perps: | ETA |
| Numparts: | 3 |
| Partof: | the Basque conflict |
A bombing attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA on 29 May 1991 when a car bomb carrying more than 200 kg of explosive was detonated inside the courtyard of a Civil Guard barracks in the Catalan city of Vic, Spain. The bombing killed 10 people, including five children, and injured 44 people.[2] [3]
Following the selection of Barcelona as the host of the 1992 Olympic Games, ETA launched a series of attacks in Catalonia to gain worldwide attention. Five months earlier, six police officers had been killed in a bomb attack in the city of Sabadell.[4]
The day after the bombing, two members of the ETA cell which carried out the attack were killed by the Civil Guard in a raid on a house at Lliçà d'Amunt, in the Province of Barcelona. Five members of ETA were also arrested.[5]