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Bomb blast hits restaurant in Mallorca, Spain


    MADRID (Reuters) - A bomb exploded on Sunday in a beachfront restaurant in the capital of the island of Mallorca, Spanish government officials said, and media reported there had been a phone warning in the name of Basque separatist group ETA.

    There were no reports of injuries, the website of Spanish newspaper El Mundo cited the Mallorcan ambulance service as saying.

    The bomb exploded at Restaurante La Rigoletta in Palma de Mallorca after the restaurant was evacuated following a telephone call made in the name of ETA, El Mundo reported.

    ETA hit Mallorca on July 30 with a car bomb attack which killed two officers of Spain's civil guard..

    ETA has claimed responsibility for three car bomb attacks attributed to the armed group over the last two months, according to a statement published in Basque-language newspaper Gara.

    The separatists are held responsible for more than 800 deaths in the past 40 years in their campaign to carve out an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southern France.

    (Reporting by Jonathan Gleave; Editing by Charles Dick)