The brother of a Sligo man missing in Spain says it is totally out of character for him to go missing for such a long period of time.

Police in the northern mining region of Asturias arrested two more Spaniards on Monday accused of helping supply the dynamite used in the Madrid train bombings attacks, authorities said.

A Spanish teenager trying to sneak out of her parents apartment in the dead of night to go to a birthday party fell from a seventh storey window but her dive was broken by a clothesline and survived.