Madrid (ANTARA News/AFP) - French police Sunday arrested two members of the Basque separatist group ETA, including Oroitz Gurruchaga Gogorza, who is the group`s military leader, Spain`s interior ministry said.

Gurruchaga and "his deputy" Xabier Aramburu were arrested in the southwestern French village of Cauna while travelling in a vehicle with fake numberplates in a joint operation by French and Spanish police, it said.

ETA is blamed for 829 killings during a four-decade armed campaign for an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southern France. (*)

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