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Spanish Officer, 3 Suspects Die in Madrid-Area Raid
(Bloomberg, April 4, 2004)
A Spanish police officer was killed and 11 were injured after suspected terrorists detonated explosives as police tried to enter their apartment in a Madrid suburb tonight, Spain's Interior Minister Angel Acebes said. . . . Three suspected terrorists killed themselves in the explosion. Some of them were being sought for the March 11 attacks that killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500 in Madrid, Acebes said. . . . The raid was part of the investigation following Spain's worst terrorist attack last month. Arrest warrants were issued Thursday for six suspects in connection with the March bombings, including one for a Tunisian alleged to have led the group that planted the explosives. Since the March attack, 24 people have been arrested, including two Syrians, two Indians, two Spaniards and 15 Moroccans. Some have been released. . . . The March 11 explosions were Europe's most deadly terrorist attack since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. . . . On Friday, explosives were found in rail tracks linking Spain and Seville, in the south of Spain. The explosives are the same type as the ones used in the March 11 attacks. The high- speed train service linking the two towns did resume, however, as the police and army guarded tracks.

posted by LoZo 5:01 PM