Madrid: A car bomb rocked a parking lot at Madrid's airport on Saturday, injuring at least one person, officials said.
The bomb exploded at about 0830 hrs, GMT at the airport's new Terminal Four, said Javier Ayuso, a spokesman for the emergency rescue services of the Madrid city government.
The Civil Guard, a paramilitary police agency under Interior Ministry command, said the blast was from a car bomb.
A warning call was made beforehand to highway patrol police in the Basque region, said an official with that agency in San Sebastian. The official spoke under ground rules barring his name from being published.
But the caller made no mention of speaking in name of the Basque separatist group ETA. Before it called a cease-fire in March, ETA often phoned in warnings before bomb blasts to this agency.
If the blast does turn out to be the work of ETA it would spell the end of that truce, which ETA had called permanent and had spurred the biggest hopes in years for an end to the decades-long Basque conflict, which has claimed more than 800 lives and made ETA Europe's last armed political militancy.
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