A Spanish police officer has been killed and another seriously injured after an explosive device detonated in an apartment building in Oviedo on Tuesday morning.
Policia Nacional officers had been called to the city’s Villafria neighbourhood after a young woman was wounded in a shooting, according to local newspapers El Comercio and La Voz de Asturias.
Residents alerted emergency services after hearing several shots shortly after 7am, regional broadcaster TPA reported.
Officers responding to the shooting found a suspicious backpack inside a building on Calle Rafael Urrusti.
The device inside the backpack exploded at around 9am as members of the police bomb disposal unit were preparing to inspect it, according to local reports.
An officer from the police dog unit was killed. A bomb disposal officer was seriously injured and had to have a leg amputated.
