Armenian blast

Press, 31 December 1980, Page 6

Armenian blast

NZPA-Reuter Madrid Seven people, including two young children, were wounded in bomb attacks on two international airline offices in Madrid yesterday. In a telephone call to NZPA-Reuter. the Armenian “October Third” group claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Trans World Airlines and Swissair (offices in central Madrid. 'The nearby offices ■ f British [Airways and the Belgian airline. Sabena, were also damaged. ! The caller from October Third said the bombs were] lin retaliation for an attack [in Geneva last week-end on [a Swiss lawyer. Gerard Benjoit, who had' been defending lan Armenian charged with "explosives offences. The caliler said the attack had been done by United States agents. .

-* *-y^-j"”*? October Third claimed re-. 1 sponsibility for bomb at-' tacks on Swiss property in London and Paris: last Octo-: ber. -L ) ■ '” , 7' ■ I Among those injured 1 * ini the latest blasts were a rep/ reseptatiye, of t’-e Madrid newspaper, ’ “Pueblo",’* “ Jose Antonio Gurruaran J-opez, who was reported in a satisfactory condition in hespitah A man and his two daughters, aged four and seven, were also hurt; Armenians have been running a world-wide terrorist campaign directed against Turks in support of their desire ■> for an Armenian homelands and to avenge a massacre of Armenians by Turks during'World War I. Their- act recently was -the murder in Sydney " of the Turkish consul-gen-eral and his bodyguard.