2nd body pulled from ETA bomb site

By CNN Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman

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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Rescue workers in the Spanish capital on Saturday removed a second body from the rubble of a Madrid airport parking garage -- the site of a bombing last week by the Basque separatist group ETA, an emergency official told CNN.

Officials confirmed that the victim was 19-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant Diego Armando Estacio, whose family reported him missing hours after the ETA car bombing December 30.

He was the second fatality in the attack, which ended a nine-month cease-fire that ETA had promised would be "permanent," raising hopes for an end to nearly 40 years of separatist violence in Spain.

Following the attack, the government said the fledgling peace process is finished.

The last deaths from an ETA attack were more than three years ago, in May 2003, and the long absence of deaths had helped set the stage for the cease-fire.

Estacio, like another Ecuadorean immigrant who also died in the airport blast, had stayed in his car while a companion went inside the terminal to meet someone arriving on a flight.

ETA warned authorities in a call prior to the explosion, and police cleared the area, but Estacio and the other man, apparently sleeping in their respective cars in the garage, did not hear the evacuation order, authorities believe.

The blast collapsed the five-level parking garage at the airport's newest terminal. No other victims were being sought, the emergency official told CNN.

The body of 35-year-old Carlos Alonso Palate, of Ecuador, was recovered from the parking garage on Thursday. His body has been repatriated on a Spanish military plane to Ecuador.

Rescue workers located Estacio's car late Thursday and, by early Friday, were able get a tiny camera near the crushed vehicle, and saw a person's arm inside. But moving cautiously through the rubble to avoid additional cave-ins that could harm the rescue teams, they did not reach Estacio's car until Saturday morning, pulling his body from the crushed vehicle about 9:30 a.m. (3:30 am ET), the emergency official told CNN.

ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths and thousands of injuries in its nearly 40-year fight for an independent homeland.

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