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Officials shut down the island's airports and ports for several hours while police searched for bombing suspects. Strict airport, road and boat controls were also being applied Friday. Police believe the attack was carried out by an ETA cell that came to the island specifically to carry it out and was not based there. Hours after the blast, police found another bomb attached to a police car in the same area and were forced to carry out a controlled explosion. The attack Wednesday morning on the Spanish mainland also targeted a police compound and surrounding buildings, in which around 120 people including dozens of children were at the time of the blast. More than 60 people were reported injured. There were no warning calls before the two attacks, for which no group has claimed responsibility. Zapatero said the attacks were staged as Spanish police in collaboration with French counterparts were hitting ETA hard "dismantling its organization, thwarting its action, identifying its members and detaining them more rapidly each time and in greater numbers." Spain has vowed to crush the separatist group since ETA ended what it had said was a permanent cease-fire with a 2006 bombing that destroyed a Madrid airport parking garage and killed two people.
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