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1980 Ispaster attack
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The 1980 Ispaster attack was a gun and grenade attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA which occurred on 1 February 1980 near the Basque town of Ispaster. The targets were a convoy of civil guards who were escorting workers and weapons from the nearby Esperanza y Cia Arms factory to Bilbao. A total of six civil guards were killed, while two ETA members were killed by hand grenades that they had thrown. The attack was the deadliest of 1980,[1] the year when ETA killed more people than any other.[2]
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1980 Ispaster ambush | |||||||
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8–11 | 6 | ||||||
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2 killed | 6 killed |
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