PARIS: Two suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA fired at French police as they sped through a checkpoint on Sunday in the Creuse region of central France, injuring one officer, a regional official said.
The suspects a couple in a car fled the scene and vanished after abandoning their vehicle, Creuse prefect Claude Serra told France Info radio.
ETA, which has killed more than 850 people in half a century of struggle for an independent Basque state in northern Spain and southwest France, has been weakened by a string of arrests and discoveries of arms caches in Spain, France and Portugal.
The separatists declared a permanent ceasefire on Jan. 10, which was rejected by the Spanish government as insufficient because it did not come with full disarmament.
Serra said four shots were fired in all and that the wounded policeman was taken to hospital but his condition was not cause for serious concern.
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