Italy hands Madrid bombing suspect over to Spain

A Muslim militant charged as a key suspect in the 2004 Madrid terror bombings was today turned over to Spain by Italy, where he has been convicted of terrorism, police said.

Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, a 35-year-old Egyptian, is described by Spanish investigators as one of the organisers of the March 11, 2004 bombings that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,700 in a string of bomb blasts on the southern Madrid commuter rail network.