Two still missing as Spaniards march to protest bombing

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MADRID (AFP) — Thousands of Spaniards marched to protest the Madrid airport bombing by Basque separatists as the Ecuadorian community fretted over the fate of two missing men who if confirmed dead would be the first fatalities ascribed to armed group ETA since 2003. Saturday's blast, which spectacularly ended a nine-month ceasefire by the armed separatist group and led the government to suspend efforts to broker a negotiated solution to four decades of conflict, slightly injured 19 people and left two young Ecuadorians missing.

Trained rescue dogs could find no trace of them Sunday but the search in the estimated 30,000 cubic meters (more than one million cubic feet) of rubble was to continue through the night. The explosion was probably caused by a 500-plus kilogram (1,100...