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HIGH-SPEED rail services between Spain's largest two cities and France have been snapped up by half a million passengers in less than nine months, reveals the transport board.
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Regional TV studio Televisión Castilla y León received a call at 09.00 yesterday (Saturday) warning of 'several explosive devices' having been hidden in the station.
The call was anonymous and no organisation's name was given as being behind the threatened blast.
National and Local Police, military-trained explosive specialists with sniffer-dogs, and the Guardia Civil's bomb squad TEDAX were called in and the station was shut to the public and cordoned off.
After exhaustive searches, authorities concluded that the bomb warning had been a false alarm.
MP for the province of Valladolid Luis Antonio Gómez Iglesias stressed that there was no cause for public concern, but that any threat, 'however minor' and including passengers' 'jokes' about explosives in their cases was always treated very seriously and the full security procedures invoked.
Photograph by rail board ADIF
HIGH-SPEED rail services between Spain's largest two cities and France have been snapped up by half a million passengers in less than nine months, reveals the transport board.
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