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The Madrid and Barcelona train stations were evacuated Wednesday morning after a fancy belt buckle triggered a bomb threat.
A security scanner located at Barcelona's Sants station captured the grenade-shaped object in a suitcase before its owner boarded a train bound for Madrid. Security forces did not alert the Catalan police for about half an hour, allowing the passenger to move without control, a Catalan publication macaw reported.
A major disruption struck the station while demining units searched the suitcases in vain to find the suspect object, the point of sale said. Services began to resume in Barcelona before 10:00 am local time (4:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time), once it became apparent that the passenger was heading to Madrid. At the same time, the authorities evacuated Atocha station, in the capital, was tweeted by the rail operator Renfe.
Atocha officials quickly found the suitcase and discovered that the suspect object was not a hand grenade, but a belt buckle. Services at Atocha resumed around 10:30 local time. Delays continued throughout the morning and in the afternoon.
The Spanish national police confirmed that the incident was a "false alarm" on Twitter, writing "Everything is back to normal" in Spanish. The Railway Infrastructure Administrator, ADIF, has opened an investigation into the incident, Spanish publication Cadena Ser reported. ADIF did not immediately respond to Newsweekrequest for comments.
In other transportation news, a little boy recently boarded an X-ray scanner at Xiaolan Station in Guangdong Province, southern China. The police broadcast a strange x-ray image of the boy, with the following warning: "When entering the post, [parents] must take care of their children to avoid any danger. "
Air passengers in Indonesia recently forced an airline to unload bags of durian prickly from an airplane ready to fly from Jakarta to Bengkulu. Durian – which has been called the smallest fruit in the world – is considered a delicacy in parts of Asia.
Commenting on the incident, Amir Zidane, a Facebook user, wrote: "When I walked in the plane, I could already smell the smell of durian. I complained to him about it. air hostess but they told me to fill out a complaint form. "Who in this plane wants to fly?" they all chanted "not us !!"
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