Basque Terrorism

ETA has detonated a bomb in a Spanish hotel.

MADRID, Spain — A bomb exploded Sunday in a Mediterranean resort hotel in southeast Spain after a telephone warning from the Basque separatist group ETA, Interior Ministry officials said.

The ministry office in the southeast Alicante region said it did not know whether there were any casualties.

The bomb detonated in the Hotel Port Denia around 3:15 p.m., the news agency Efe reported. The town of Denia is located in the Spanish region of Alicante on the Costa Blanca and is popular with tourists.

Efe quoted police as saying the warning call was placed to police in the Basque region. The hotel was immediately evacuated and the bomb exploded about 30 minutes later.

If I were ETA, I'd start using politics, not bombs, to settle the dispute over the Basque region.