Bilbao - At least six people were injured Sunday morning in a car bomb explosion near a police station at the northern Spanish town of Ondarroa near Bilbao, the second such attack within hours.

The Basque separatist group ETA was suspected in the explosion, which took place without warning. Two policemen and four passersby were among the injured.

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Seville - Spain has sent a reconnaissance aircraft and 90 soldiers to Somalia as part of its efforts to combat the recent upswing in piracy off the coast of the African state, the Spanish Ministry of Defence said on Saturday.

The surveillance plane as well as two troop transport and equipment flights left from Moron airbase near Seville in southern Spain and will operate from a base in Djibouti, the ministry said.

The Spanish mission will support a recent EU initiative to curb piracy in the Gulf of Aden, which has become a pressing problem in recent months.

Madrid - The Spanish transport ministry rejected claims it leaked confidential details of its investigation into the August 20 Spanair air crash which killed 154 people and left 18 injured in Madrid, the Spanish media reported Saturday

"I am also disgusted by this. This is a lack of respect for the survivors," Minister Magdalena Alvarez was quoted as saying, adding she would ensure that those responsible for the leaks would be brought to justice.

Earlier this week, a preliminary report of the commission investigating the crash was leaked, revealing that the Spanair MD-82 jetliner's wing flaps were not properly extended and that the plane's take-off warning system failed to alert the pilots of the problem.

Madrid - The Spanish government Friday adopted measures aimed at encouraging jobless immigrants to return home amid a deepening economic crisis.

Migrants who leave Spain will be paid their entire unemployment benefit in two parts, 40 per cent in Spain and 60 per cent in the home country, Labour Minister Celestino Corbacho said.

The migrants will not lose rights gained in Spain earlier on, the minister added.

Madrid- The credibility of a commission investigating the August 20 plane crash that killed 154 people in Madrid was questioned Friday after the main pilots' representative Valentin Villarroel resigned from it over leaks to the press.

Two other pilots had left the commission earlier. Infrastructure Minister Magdalena Alvarez said she would not accept Villarroel's resignation as long as the pilots' association APCC did not propose a substitute for him.