Spanish police find bomb on rail line

Police found a bomb on a high-speed rail line between Madrid and Seville today, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said.

Bomb-disposal experts alerted by a railway employee found 22-24lbs of dynamite under a line about 40 miles south of Madrid on the rail line running to Seville, Acebes said.

The explosives were connected to a detonator with a 130-yard cable, the minister told a news conference.

He said it was not immediately known who placed the bomb.

The bomb scare came less than a month after 10 backpack bombs ripped through commuter a train in Madrid, killing 191 people and injuring more than 1,800.

Yesterday, police in northern Spain defused three letter bombs addressed to journalists in Madrid.