Spanish police hunt ETA rail bomb

Updated: 21:04, Friday, 26 December 2003

Spanish police were hunting today for an explosive device they believe was planted on a major rail line.

Spain Police hunt for ETA bomb Spain Police hunt for ETA bomb

Two days after thwarting a potentially devastating bomb attack on a crowded Madrid train station, police said two suspects arrested over that bomb plot had told officers about the device on a railtrack in the northeastern province of Zaragoza.

The suspects, said to be members of the Basque separatist organization ETA, were also accused of planting another bomb on a railtrack in Zaragoza last Tuesday, which damaged a train but caused no casualties.

Bomb disposal experts focused their search on an eight-kilometer stretch of track about 80 kilometers southeast of the city of Zaragoza where they expected to find the device.

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