ETA had carried out similar attacks against Civil Guard barracks in Zaragoza in 1987, killing 12 people, and in Vic three and a half months before the Mutxamel attack, killing ten people. The Mutxamel barracks was home to six Civil Guards, three of them married and living there with their families.Un coche bomba de ETA mata a dos policías locales y a un vecino de un pueblo de Alicante, El Pais, 17 September 1991
