Overview
- Officers responding to a reported shooting in Oviedo found a suspicious backpack with a flashing light in a building entrance and summoned TEDAX bomb‑disposal specialists to examine it.
- The device detonated while being inspected, killing a National Police sub‑inspector at the scene and critically injuring a TEDAX technician who was taken to the Central University Hospital of Asturias.
- The police union JUPOL confirmed one officer dead and another seriously injured; Spanish media have reported the injured technician suffered an amputation but that detail has not been officially confirmed.
- The earlier incident that prompted the police response involved a 17‑year‑old girl who was wounded and taken to hospital, and authorities say the connection between the shooting and the explosion remains under investigation.
- A large operation by national and local police and firefighters set up a double security cordon and investigators are conducting forensic work to establish how the device was made, where it came from, and whether suspects link the two incidents.