Monitoring Desk: Madrid Police has foiled suicide at Atocha train station and arrested one suicide bomber, claim Spanish and Italian televisions. However Madrid police changed its statement after 40 minutes of arresting the man that suspect person had no explosive.
.@policia desaloja el tren proveniente de vallecas antes de entrar en Atocha. pic.twitter.com/pYZrQE1s0t
— Javi Carmona (@JaviKarmona) January 2, 2015
Madrid police officially said that police had false information about suspect and nothing was found from him. However the station is still closed at the moment and all passengers have already left trains and taken away their luggages with them out of trains.
Earlier according to twitter messages and by police sources that the man has been arrested by police and evacuation and safety procedures were followed to avoid any eventuality and bomb disposal officers are examining the content of the rucksack suspect bomber was carrying. However, Spanish daily El Mundo reports that the bomb disposal unit found just a bottle of water from suspect but the station was closed to all passengers.
It may be mentioned that Atocha is the biggest train station in Madrid and station was hit by terrorists on 11 March 2004 when three bombs exploded as part of a coordinated attacks that killed 91 people and wounding over 1,800 passengers.
