ETA linked to car explosion

Two suspected ETA members, possibly on a bombing mission, were killed when their car blew up on the outskirts of Bilbao.

Radio control equipment, false number plates and a pistol had been found among the wreckage, leading authorities to believe the occupants were members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA.

The explosion follows a crackdown by Spanish authorities on the radical Basque party Batasuna, which the Government alleges is ETA's political wing.