Bar Iruña attack

Bar Iruna attack
Bar Iruna attack
Location	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Date	December 26, 1987 ; 6:00 pm (UTC+01:00)
Target	Americans
Attack type	Bombing
Weapons	Grenade
Deaths	1
Injured	9
Perpetrators	Catalan separatists

On December 26, 1987, a bomb attack on a United Service Organizations (USO) club in Barcelona, Spain killed an American sailor and injured nine others. The attack, on Bar Iruna, was perpetrated by Catalan nationalist terrorists. 22-year-old Ronald Strong from Reeders, Pennsylvania was the person who died, having received shrapnel wounds to his lungs and kidneys.^{[citation needed]}

Both Terra Lliure and Catalan Red Liberation Army (ERCA) claimed responsibility. Residents claimed that anti-American slogans and graffiti near the bar at the time suggested the incident was linked to the extension of the Spain-United States military treaty (Pact of Madrid), which was first signed during the tenure of caudillo Francisco Franco in 1953.^[1]^[2]

Terra Lliure had previously claimed responsibility for an attack on an American consulate in Barcelona in October, which wounded eight sailors.^[3] A woman claiming to be from ERCA took responsibility "against an establishment of the Yankee war marines" in a call to news agency EFE. However, the authorities doubted its credibility.^[4]

References

[1] ttps://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/28/world/american-sailor-dies-in-barcelona-after-uso-blast-that-hurt-10.html

[2] ttps://www.csmonitor.com/1987/1109/obase.html

[3] ttps://articles.latimes.com/1987-12-27/news/mn-31625_1_sailors

[4] ttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/12/27/A-US-sailor-died-Sunday-from-injuries-suffered-in/5382567579600/

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