One of the three suspected members of Basque separatist group ETA, is escorted by members of the French anti-terrorist squad RAID, as he leaves a ski resort after being arrested on August 19, 2009 in Le Corbier Villarambert, French Alps. Police found two ETA explosives caches in southern France a day after three suspected members of the armed Basque group were arrested in the Alps.
The biggest cache, in Camplong in the Herault region near the Mediterranean, contained a large stash of explosives, along with electronic equipment that can be used to make bomb detonators.
A second, smaller, stash of explosives was found at Hellette in the Pyrenees, about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the Spanish border, the official said.
Both caches are thought to be linked to a French swoop on Wednesday, in which three alleged ETA logistics experts were arrested in their flat in the Alpine ski resort of Le Corbier.
Following that raid, French police found 100kg (220 pounds) of ammonium nitrate and 12 litres of nitromethane, used to make bombs, at an ETA hideout in Ferrieres, around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Spanish border.
ETA is blamed for the deaths of 828 people in its campaign for an independent Basque homeland in part of northern Spain and southwest France.
It figures on several terrorist blacklists, including those of the European Union and the United States.
Traditionally, ETA has concentrated its attacks on Spanish targets while its militants use France as a rear base to hide out and rearm. In recent years French officials have arrested several senior suspects.
The trio picked up in the Alps were expected to be transferred on Friday to the Paris region for questioning by anti-terrorist investigators, according to another official connected with the inquiry.
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