In 2004, a second terrorist plot to bomb Spanish high-speed trains was narrowly thwarted
Just weeks after the devastating Madrid train bombings, Spanish authorities discovered a second unexploded device on a high-speed rail line, narrowly preventing another mass-casualty catastrophe in the heart of Europe.
On April 2, 2004, a security official discovered a 26-pound bomb hidden in a bag on the high-speed AVE tracks connecting Madrid and Seville. The device was linked to the same terrorist cell responsible for the tragic March 11 attacks that had killed 191 people only 22 days earlier.
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