Columbine copycat bomb plotter held

Spanish police have arrested a man who allegedly planned to imitate the 1999 Columbine school killings by planting bombs around a university campus to kill thousands of students.

In a statement, police said they seized 140kg of bomb-making material when they arrested the 21-year-old in the Balearic island city of Palma de Mallorca

Police said that in his personal diary and internet blog, the man — only identified by his initials JMMS — talked of his admiration for the perpetrators of the Columbine attacks and how he planned to place several bombs around a campus in Palma.