Spanish police find explosives in Basque village

MADRID, Jan 4 (Reuters) Spanish police said they found 100 kg of explosives in a Basque Country village today and said they appeared to have been stored there by ETA guerrillas.

The explosives were stored in a container in the village of Atxondo, the Basque Country police force said in a news release, adding that it was ready for immediate use and only lacked a detonator.

The find came after the government broke off peace talks with ETA on Saturday after a car bomb wrecked a multi-storey carpark at Madrid's airport and killed up to two men.

Spanish radio had earlier reported that 90 kg of explosives had been found in a car in the nearby town of Durango.

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