MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have foiled an attempt by suspected Basque separatists to blow up a train in a main Madrid station on Christmas Eve Wednesday, one of the busiest travel days of the year, the interior minister said. Minister Angel Acebes said police detained one person after he loaded a suitcase packed with more than 44 pounds of explosives on a train in the northern city of San Sebastian bound for Madrid. The explosives were set to go off at 3:55 p.m., after the train arrived in Spanish capital, he said. Acebes said a second person was detained before putting another explosives-packed suitcase on the same train.
"In total, that train would have had 50 kilos of (explosives) ..., aimed at creating an explosion in Chamartin station, I insist, on Christmas Eve at four in the afternoon," Acebes told a news conference. rest of story
Yikes, I've been to that train station!