Railway stations in Barcelona and Madrid evacuated due to suspicious package
Police evacuated the main railway stations in Barcelona and Madrid during Wednesday morning’s rush hour after a possible explosive device was found in a suitcase at the station in the Catalan capital, The Guardian reported.
The regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, said an explosives unit was dispatched to the high-speed rail tracks at the central Sants station in Barcelona at 8am following a call from railway workers.
The alarm was triggered after security officers saw an object “with the shape of a possible explosive device” on their scanners.
Two trains were searched before the Mossos declared that the object “posed no threat”.
The security alert also led to the evacuation of Madrid’s Atocha station, but police said this was a false alarm.