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MADRID — A car bomb was defused in a megabrothel’s parking lot in northeast Spain early Monday and 300 people were evacuated from the site, the Interior Ministry said.

A security guard at Paradise, one of Spain’s largest legal brothels, called police late Sunday in La Jonquera, which is on the border with France, after masked men sped up to the brothel in two cars.

A man got out of one vehicle brandishing a weapon and shouted he was leaving behind a car with a bomb in the back. He then sped off with four other people in a second high-performance vehicle.

A regional ministry spokesman said it took a bomb squad several hours to deactivate the device, but did not provide details of the size or weight of the explosives found. He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with ministry rules.

Paradise employs around 200 sex workers and was inaugurated in October near the Spanish end of a tunnel under the Pyrenees Mountains linking the two countries after years of disputes and stoppages of construction.

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