A Spanish police officer was killed, and another lost his leg on Tuesday after a backpack bomb exploded following a shooting.
The officers had been deployed to a property in the northern town of Oviedo following reports of a shooting in which a 17-year-old girl was seriously wounded.
Police and members of the bomb disposal unit arrived at the scene, where they located a backpack outside the entrance of the building containing an explosive device.
Police union JUPOL said in a statement the officer who died was a member of the canine unit of the National Police, while the injured officer, belonging to the bomb disposal unit, remained in a very serious condition after losing a leg.
The union said that upon arriving at the scene of the shooting on the outskirts of Oviedo, police found a backpack at the building’s entrance containing an explosive device, which detonated as officers took it away from the building to defuse it.
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