Police Officer Dies in Spain Bomb Blast After Oviedo Shooting Call
(MENAFN) One police officer was killed and another wounded Tuesday morning when an explosive device detonated in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo, according to a national news agency citing National Police sources.
Officers responding to a shooting that left a woman injured found a backpack holding an explosive device at a residential building in the city’s Villafria neighborhood at about 7:00 a.m. local time (0600 GMT). The device then went off, the agency reported.
The blast killed a member of the police canine unit, the agency said, citing Jupol, a Spanish National Police union. The wounded officer, a specialist with the force’s bomb disposal unit, lost a leg and remains in serious condition.
Officers are hunting the suspect in the shooting, who may still be armed, National Police sources said.
Officers responding to a shooting that left a woman injured found a backpack holding an explosive device at a residential building in the city’s Villafria neighborhood at about 7:00 a.m. local time (0600 GMT). The device then went off, the agency reported.
The blast killed a member of the police canine unit, the agency said, citing Jupol, a Spanish National Police union. The wounded officer, a specialist with the force’s bomb disposal unit, lost a leg and remains in serious condition.
Officers are hunting the suspect in the shooting, who may still be armed, National Police sources said.
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