November 2: A car bomb explodes at the Avinguda Diagonal avenue in Barcelona, injuring a security officer and a municipal officer. November 10: A bomb fails to go off in front of the house of two journalists, Aurora Intxausti and Juan Palomo, in San Sebastian. November 11: A booby trap bomb explodes outside a police barracks in San Sebastian, injuring 10 police officers. November 21: Former Socialist health minister Ernest Lluch is shot dead in a Barcelona car park. Earlier that day, a bomb had caused great damage to an estate agency in Guernica, Biscay and grenades had been thrown at a Civil Guard barracks in Irún. One of the grenades injured a policeman and another hit a children's school. Police defused a car bomb next to the barracks. December 5: Police defuse a bomb placed in front of a court house in Eibar, Gipuzkoa. December 14: A car bomb explodes in Viladecavalls, Barcelona, killing Partido Popular councilor Francisco Cano Consuegra. December 18: ETA tries to kill a professor by placing a bomb inside an elevator at the University of the Basque Country in Lejona, Biscay. December 20: A municipal police officer is shot dead in the center of Barcelona. December 27: A bomb explodes in a social security office in San Sebastian. No one was injured. December 31: A car loaded with 160 kg of dynamite is defused by police in Seville after a warning call from ETA. 2001 January 9: A bomb fails to explode in Zarautz, Guipúzcoa when Partido Popular members were paying tribute to a councillor killed by ETA. January 10: Two backpack bombs explode in the city of Girona. No one was injured but there was great damage to a government building. January 15: A small bomb goes off outside an Ertzaintza-related union office in Bilbao. January 20: Two homemade bombs explode outside the houses of two Ertzaintza officers in Bilbao. No one was injured. January 22: Civil Guard officers deactivate a massive car bomb placed by ETA in Getxo, Biscay. January 24: Police defuse a bomb placed by ETA under the car of a Spanish army worker in Zizur Mayor, Navarre. January 26: A car bomb in a suburb of San Sebastian kills a navy cook and injures two people. January 31: Two Civil Guards escape death after a bomb targeted at them explodes in Pasaia, Guipúzcoa. No one was injured. February 3: A