A police officer has been killed in an explosion in the Spanish city of Oviedo. Local authorities said an explosive device in a backpack detonated, The Guardian reports.
The victim was an officer from the police dog unit. Another officer, a bomb disposal specialist, was injured.
El Mundo reports that they arrived after a call-out about gunfire and the wounding of a 17-year-old girl. There, they saw a partially open backpack with a torch, after which they called the Tedax bomb disposal unit.
Juan Jose, an officer from the dog unit, approached the bag and it exploded. Jose was killed and the other officer was seriously injured.