Police officer killed and another gravely injured in Oviedo backpack explosion

Police were called to a reported shooting in Oviedo, in northern Spain, before the fatal explosion on the morning of November 10, 2026. According to ABC, officers attended after a report that a man had fired shots.

Early accounts linked the incident to a neighbourhood dispute. Deutsche Welle described a conflict between two families that had become increasingly violent, while EL PAIS said the explosion was believed to be connected to a dispute between neighbours.

Officers attended a residential building in connection with a separate incident, BBC News reported. The available accounts do not establish the full sequence between the reported shooting and the discovery of the backpack.

During the police operation on November 10, a backpack exploded, killing one officer and gravely injuring another, according to ABC. El Confidencial placed the explosion in Villafría, Oviedo.

RT en Español identified the officer killed as a subinspector in the National Police canine unit. It also reported that the injured officer had undergone a leg amputation. Times now described the injured officer as a bomb disposal expert.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo, president of the PP, expressed sorrow over the officer's death on November 10, Infobae reported.

The immediate toll reported by EL PAIS is one National Police officer dead and another gravely injured. Its account describes the connection to the neighbourhood dispute as provisional, rather than established.

The available coverage does not establish who placed the backpack, who made the explosive device or whether the person involved in the reported shooting was responsible for the explosion.

The central questions are how the reported shooting led officers to the backpack and whether the two incidents were directly connected. Further information on the injured officer's condition and the circumstances of the blast would clarify an account that remains incomplete.