During the evening of 26 May 1979, a bomb
explode
An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known ...
d in Madrid, Spain.
[Terrorist bomb kills 10 in Madrid restaurant]
/ref> Its detonation in the basement washroom of the California 47 café killed 10 people, injured another 40 and severely damaged the building.[ No group claimed responsibility, but the far-left ]First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups
The First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups ( es, Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre, GRAPO) was a Spanish clandestine Marxist–Leninist group aiming for the formation of a Spanish Republican state.
Besides its anti ...
(GRAPO) are believed to have been the perpetrators.[ Police found a second, unexploded bomb in the café.][
]
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1979 crimes in Spain
20th-century mass murder in Spain