Forensic scientists were struggling today to analyse body parts from up to four Madrid bombing suspects who blew themselves up as police prepared to storm their apartment.

A 12-kilo bomb hidden in a bag on a busy high-speed rail line in Spain reignited terrorism fears in a country still traumatised by last month’s Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.

Spain was plunged into further terror crisis today when a bomb was discovered on a high speed rail line near Madrid that was being used by hundreds of people heading on holiday.

THE family of three men suspected of plotting a bomb attack in Britain yesterday denied they were al-Qaida terrorists.

A Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants today for five people in connection with the Madrid train bombings, and re-arrested a released Moroccan suspect, a court official said in Madrid.

SPAIN’S interior minister named a Moroccan extremist group yesterday as the main focus of the probe into the Madrid terror bombings.

European Union nations weigh new measures to fight terrorism today at emergency talks called after the terror attacks in Madrid that killed more than 200 people.

The Spanish government today declassified intelligence documents it said would refute charges that it lied in the immediate aftermath of the Madrid bombings by insisting that Basque separatists were responsible.

Spaniards went to the polls today in a general election thrown wide open by a reported al-Qaida claim that it staged the Madrid rail bombings to punish the government for supporting the Iraq war.

Spain arrested three Moroccans and two Indians today over the Madrid terror bombings, the interior minister said.

Investigators probing the Madrid terror blasts are focusing on a stolen white van that contained detonators, and eyewitness reports of three young men getting out of it.

Millions of Spaniards took to the streets, chanting “Cowards” and “Assassins” in a protest against the Madrid bombings that killed 199 people.

Millions of people were expected to turn out on the streets of Spain today in protest at yesterday’s devastating bomb attacks in Madrid which killed 198 people.

A series of bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession, blowing apart four commuter trains, killing at least 192 people and wounding more than 1,400.

The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar has condemned the attacks in Madrid as "mass murder" and he vowed to hunt down the attackers.

Written off in recent months as possibly moribund after a string of arrests and thwarted attacks, the Basque separatist group Eta demonstrated today it’s still capable of spectacular violence.

Bomb-making chemicals discovered by police in a truck driven by a suspected member of the Basque separatist group ETA were intended to explode in Madrid and would have caused a “massacre”, Spanish justice minister Jose Maria Michavila said today.

The Basque terror group ETA has threatened to resume attacks on foreign tourists, the Spanish government warned.

Police, closing in on militant Basques hiding out in France, have arrested two more suspected members of the armed separatist group ETA, bringing to six the number of suspects arrested over the weekend, officials said today.

Spanish police have arrested 40 people and seized more than 240,000 pirate CDs and DVDs.

A SPANISH policeman was killed and three colleagues injured yesterday when a boo

A Spanish policeman was killed and three colleagues injured today when a booby trapped sign for Basque terror group Eta exploded as they began to inspect it.

A Spanish policeman was killed and three colleagues injured today when a booby trapped sign for a Basque separatist party exploded as they began to inspect it.

Three Spanish policemen were injured today when a booby trapped sign for a Basque separatist party exploded as they began to inspect it.

THE arrest in France of two suspected leaders of the outlawed Basque separatists ETA significantly weakened the armed group, Spainish justice minister Angel Acebes said yesterday.

AS Spaniards mourned a six-year-old girl and a 57-year-old man killed by a powerful car bomb, the Spanish government yesterday blamed the Basque separatist group ETA and promised a tough reprisal against the group and its political arm.