Spain says arrested man planned university attacks

Published October 4, 2012 2:02pm ET



MADRID (AP) — Spanish police said Thursday they arrested a man on suspicion that he planned to imitate the 1999 Columbine school killings by planting bombs around a university campus.

Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz hailed the arrest, saying that “It appears a massacre has been averted.”

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