Bomb found on Spanish rail line (Agencies) Updated: 2004-04-03 10:27
Passengers wait at Madrid's Atocha station
after services of the Madrid-Seville AVE high speed trains were halted
when a bomb was found on a rail track south of Madrid April 2, 2004. The
discovery disrupted travel as millions of Spaniards prepared to leave
cities for the Easter week holidays and came on the day a new session of
Parliament opened following last month's elections. [Reuters]
High-speed AVE trains stand idle at Santa
Justa's train station in Seville, Spain April 2, 2004. A bomb containing
between 22 and 26 lbs of explosives was found on the high-speed train
track linking Seville to Madrid, near the Spanish city of Toledo on
Friday. [Reuters]
Two Spanish civil guards inspect a railway
track in Mocejon, April 2, 2004. Spain sent in the army to guard its
railways on Friday after finding a bomb under a high-speed track that
contained explosives similar to those used in last month's Madrid train
bombings. [Reuters]
A high-speed AVE train stands idle at Santa
Justa's train station in Seville after the Madrid-Seville services were
halted when a bomb was found on the rail track 60 km south of Madrid
April 2, 2004. Spain will bring in the army to guard key rail lines after
discovery of a bomb on a high-speed line that almost certainly contained
the same type of dynamite used in Madrid bombings, the Interior Ministry
said on Friday. [Reuters]
