Spain PM vows to end Eta violence

Spanish PM saw the Madrid wreckage at first hand

The Spanish prime minister says he is "more determined than ever" to stamp out violence after visiting the scene of Saturday's bomb blast in Madrid.

One man has been confirmed killed by the blast at Barajas airport, and a second is still missing, presumed dead.

The government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero blamed the bomb on the Basque separatist group Eta, which had been nine months into a ceasefire.

Meanwhile Basque police say they have found a car packed with explosives.

The car was discovered on Thursday in the Spanish Basque Country, said police quoted by Spanish media.

Mr Zapatero said Saturday's attack "will achieve nothing, it is not going to intimidate anyone".

He toured the scene of the five-storey car park flattened in the blast with firefighters engaged in clearing 40,000 tons of rubble, and about 400 wrecked cars.

Earlier he met the family of Carlos Alonso Palate, 35, an Ecuadorean man whose body was recovered on Wednesday.

Another Ecuadorean, Diego Armano Estacio Civizapa, is still missing.

Both men had been sleeping in their cars, and so did not manage to escape the building even though at least one telephone warning was received before the bomb exploded.

'Right to life'

"I am more determined than ever to devote my energy to seeing an end to violence and achieving peace", Mr Zapatero said as he visited the site.

All citizens "have a right to a life without bombs or violence," he added.

Eta has not officially claimed responsibility for the blast, though the warning caller said he was from the group.

Eta's political wing, Batasuna, insists the peace process "is not broken".

But Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba has declared it "finished".

Mr Palate's death was the first attributed to Eta in more than three years.

The prime minister's office said he would soon announce new measures in his anti-terrorist strategy.

He has been criticised by the conservative opposition for negotiating with a group that has not given up arms.

Meanwhile critics from the separatist movement said he had made no gestures towards Eta to reward it for its ceasefire.