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Spain Bomb Attack Station Evacuated after False Alert
2015-01-03
[AnNahar] Madrid's Atocha station, the scene of the worst terror attack in Spanish history, was evacuated Friday after a false alert when a man threatened to blow himself up.

Police said a man claiming to be carrying a bomb in his backpack was tossed in the clink
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, but nothing was found.

Islamist holy warriors killed 191 people and injured nearly 2,000 in a series of coordinated backpack kabooms on trains travelling to the station on March 11, 2004, that became known as the 11-M attacks.

"We searched a train and the rails but we found nothing," police told Agence La Belle France Presse.
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