Madrid crews reach central area of airport car bomb site

Crews sifting through tonnes of rubble have reached the core area of a car bombing blamed on Basque separatists, but cannot go any faster as they search for two missing men, Madrid’s mayor said today.

Alberto Ruiz Gallardon told reporters at the five-storey parking garage destroyed in Saturday’s blast at Madrid airport that the work was going at the fastest rate possible as the crews operated with the twin goals of finding two Ecuadorian men missing in the rubble and locating the van used in the bombing without destroying evidence.