Madrid train bombers had more targets lined up

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MADRID - The Madrid train bombers were planning other attacks on targets including a British school and two Jewish centres, Spanish media said on Wednesday, quoting a police report.

Investigators found documents detailing the targets in the wreckage of a suburban apartment where seven prime suspects in the train attacks blew themselves up on April 3 when police cornered them, the reports said.

Police have handed the information to a parliamentary commission investigating the bombings that killed 191 people and injured 1900 on packed commuter trains on March 11, news agency Europa Press said.

As well as a British infant school in a suburb of Madrid, targets included a Jewish hostel and a recreation centre used by Jewish families, the agency said.

A parliamentary spokeswoman said she had no information on the police report.

Investigators say Islamic militants acting in the name of al Qaeda carried out the train bombings. They say most of the key suspects either died in the April 3 suicide blast or are under arrest. A judge has formally accused 25 people, most of them Moroccan.

- REUTERS