Spanish PM Visits Airport Bombing Site

Spain's prime minister visited the site of a car bombing blamed on Basque separatists on Thursday, touring a scene of destruction that killed a man and left his much-touted peace process for the region in ruins.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero walked with firefighters and police investigators as he looked at the flattened remains of an airport car park at Madrid international airport's Terminal 4, which was attacked Saturday.

The blast killed an Ecuadorean immigrant whose body was found in the rubble Wednesday, left another Ecuadorean missing and feared dead and injured 26 people. The death marked the first fatality in an attack blamed on ETA in more than three years.

The blast shattered a cease-fire that the armed Basque separatist group ETA declared in March, and has prompted Zapatero's government to scrap plans for negotiating a settlement with Europe's last armed political militancy.

Zapatero met Wednesday night with relatives of the man killed in the blast and with those of the one still missing.

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