Women suspects in Spanish bombings

Two women are being hunted for planning the Spanish bombings which left a British holidaymaker in a critical condition and a dozen other people injured.

Police have circulated photos of Ainhoa Adin Jauregui, 29, and Leire Etxeberria Simarro, 25, both members of the Basque separatist organisation ETA.

Jauregui has been named by Spanish police as a member of ETA's Ibaria commando based in southern France. Simarro, who has served a prison sentence for burning a bus and injuring the driver, is believed to have been involved in a gun battle with French police last December.

The attacks on hotels packed with British tourists on the Costa de Sol and others in two major cities in the north of Spain have caused hundreds of thousands pounds of damage and led to thousands of travellers cancelling their holidays.

Today, holidaymaker Mario Gabriel, 32, from Tottenham, remains in a grave condition after being injured by a bomb timed to coincide with the European Union summit in Seville.

Anti-terrorist experts believe that the Costa del Sol bombings at Fuengirola, Marbella and nearby Mijas were carried out by a gang from south-west France.

The bombings on Friday night at Zaragoza, where a car exploded in the underground car park, and on Saturday in Santander, were the work of a cell operating out of the Basque region itself.