We study the construction of complex minimal smooth surfaces S of general type with pg(S) = 0 and K 2 S = 7. Inoue constructed the first examples of such surfaces, which can be described as Galois Z 2 × Z 2 -covers over the four-nodal cubic surface. Later the first named author constructed more examples as Galois Z 2 × Z 2 -covers over certain six-nodal del Pezzo surfaces of degree one.In this paper we construct a two-dimensional family of minimal smooth surfaces of general type with pg = 0 and K 2 = 7, as Galois Z 2 × Z 2 -covers of certain rational surfaces with Picard number three, with eight nodes and with two elliptic fibrations. This family is different from the previous ones.