The fingerprints of an American lawyer arrested over the Madrid terror bombings were found on bag containing detonators of the kind used in the March attack, the Spanish government said today.

THE massive multinational probe into the Madrid bombings made significant progress yesterday, with police in Spain arresting five more suspects and bringing five others before a judge.

Spanish police have arrested four more suspects, believed to be of Moroccan origin, in the hunt for the Madrid terror bombers.

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.

Police probing the Madrid terrorist attacks have found a van with detonators and an Arabic-language tape with Koranic verses – and officials don’t rule out any line of investigation, Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said tonight.

Sales reps from four undertakers have set up banners outside a Madrid-area hospital to protest being ejected because of loud arguments while competing for customers.