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A woman wearing a pomegranate-shaped belt buckle on a train from Barcelona to Madrid caused a security lockdown and forced a station to be partially evacuated, as well as railway delays.
Barcelona police said they were informed by security personnel at the city's main Sants station "that they had seen an object on the scanner that could be an explosive artifact," a spokesman said. .
Most Spanish train stations require train passengers to carry their luggage in scanners.
A photo of the luggage scan published on the Mossos police's Twitter feed in Catalonia clearly showed what looked like a grenade.
Aquesta és the imatge to climb on the pot one the objecte sospitós that aquest matí ha obligat to posar in marxa the dispositiu policial to the estació of Sants pic.twitter.com/I4CabdtCx8
– Mossos (@mossos) November 7, 2018
The police then evacuated two high-speed trains to Barcelona station but found nothing, the spokesman said.
"Then we saw that this person could be on a train to Madrid, we warned the national police," he added.
In the Spanish capital, police announced the creation of a security zone on one of the platforms of Atocha station, the scene of one of the worst terrorist attacks in Europe in 2004, during which 191 people were killed in an explosion on a commuter train.
When the train arrived, they checked the luggage and found that the grenade-shaped object was actually a "belt buckle," said a police spokeswoman.
Why did the security personnel in Barcelona let the passenger get on the train if he was worried about the potential grenade?
Adif, the Spanish State company responsible for station management and railway infrastructure, said it was investigating the incident.
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