Large bomb defused in Seville, ETA sets off two bombs in San Sebastian

The automobile was parked near the station used by the high-speed AVE train which runs between Madrid and Seville.

The radio report said that the bomb placed in the boot of the vehicle was believed to weigh as much as 100 kilograms.

An explosion of that magnitude would have caused an adjacent office building to collapse, authorities said.

As a precaution, 100 guests of a nearby hotel were evacuated to safety.

Late Saturday, two bomb blasts rocked the city of San Sebastian, in Spain's Basque country, causing substantial property damage but no injuries, according to police.

A few minutes before the bombs detonated, an anonymous caller telephoned the newspaper Gara in the name of the ETA organization with a warning.

Then, shortly before midnight, a blast tore through a branch of the Japanese automaker Nissan. The second explosion came two minutes later at a construction company's headquarters 300 metres away.

Shock waves from the explosions damaged nearby buildings, including a large apartment complex.

(kil/dpa)