INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Two high-speed trains at the Barcelona station were evacuated in the bomb scare
to be partly evacuated as well as railway delays.Police in Barcelona said they were advised by security personnel in the city's main Sants
station that "they had seen by scan an object that could be an explosive artefact," a spokesman told news agency AFP.Most Spanish stations
require passengers boarding trains to put their luggage through scanners.A photo of the luggage scan posted on the Twitter feed of
Catalonia's Mossos police force showed what looked clearly like a grenade.Police subsequently evacuated two high-speed trains at the
Barcelona station but didn't find anything, the spokesman said."Then we saw that this person could be in a train going to Madrid
We warned national police," he added.In the Spanish capital, police said they created a security zone on part of a platform at Atocha
station, which was the scene of one of Europe's worst terror attacks in 2004 when 191 people were killed in explosions on commuter
trains.When the train arrived, they checked the luggage and found that the grenade-like object was actually a "belt buckle," a police
spokeswoman said.It is unclear why security personnel in Barcelona let the passenger get onto the train if they were worried about the
potential grenade.Adif, Spain's state company that manages stations and rail infrastructure, told news agency AFP they were looking into the
incident.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
