On 9 August 2002, the Basque separatist organization,

ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...

, placed an explosive in the toilets of a hamburger restaurant, located a few meters from a tourist office, the

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in t ...

town of

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. No one died or was injured, although it caused serious material damage.

claimed responsibility for the attack through a call to the Basque newspaper ''

Gara ''Gara'' (Basque: ''We Are'') is a bilingual (Basque/Spanish) newspaper published in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque Autonomous Community. The newspaper's target market comprises the area of the Basque Country, but its cir ...

'', and the gorup also said it had placed a bomb on the beach in

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, which was found days later in palm trees.

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