Barcelona train station re-opens following bomb scare
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(7 Nov 2018) Rail services in Spain's two main cities suffered disruptions on Wednesday after a suspicious suitcase triggered alarms for possible explosives and prompted station evacuations before police declared it a false alarm. An official with Spain's National Police said the alert was ended after agents in Madrid confirmed that a suspicious object in the bags of a female passenger who had travelled on a high-speed train from Barcelona didn't pose any danger. The official was not authorised to be named in media reports. "Everything returns to normal," said the National Police in a brief tweet explaining that disruptions in the long-distance and commuter train stations in the Spanish capital had been due to the false alarm. The search in the capital followed police searching high-speed trains and railway tracks in the country's second largest city, Barcelona, after the central Sants station's security scanner identified an object shaped like a possible explosive device inside a suitcase. It was unclear why the suspicious case was allowed onto the train. An AP reporter at the scene in Barcelona saw long queues of passengers waiting for rail traffic to resume. A homegrown extremist cell killed 16 people in August last year in Barcelona and a nearby coastal resort in consecutive vehicle and knife attacks that were later claimed by the Islamic State group. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/10e04a190a535297404a105429bbd947
