LEGANES, Spain (Reuters) - The suspected Tunisian ringleader of last month's Madrid train bombings blew himself up with at least three accomplices after police cornered them in a suburban Madrid apartment, officials said Sunday.
Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, known as El Tunecino (The Tunisian), was one of several men who chanted defiant Islamic slogans in Arabic before detonating a charge that also killed a policeman, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said.
Another of the dead, Moroccan Abdennabi Kounjaa, was also among six suspects being hunted in connection with the March 11 bombings of four commuter trains, which killed 191 people.
Acebes said the same group also planted a bomb, defused on Friday, that had been intended to derail a high-speed train.
Fifteen police officers were wounded by the explosion during the Saturday night raid in Leganes, a suburb of the capital, as a large explosives cache went off. One was in serious condition.
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