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Car bomb fails to explode

A large car bomb placed by the Basque guerrilla group ETA near a Defense Ministry office in the northern city of Logrono failed to explode late on Sunday after only the detonator ignited, the government said yesterday.

The group telephoned a warning to a Basque newspaper at 2100 GMT and 30 minutes later a small explosion was heard in a car park in the city, the capital of the Rioja region adjacent to the Basque country.