Madrid suspects' photos released

The six may have left Spain (Place cursor over photo for names)

Photos of six men wanted in connection with the Madrid train bombings have been released by Spain's Interior Ministry.

International arrest warrants for the men have been issued by the judge investigating the 11 March attacks, which killed 191 people and injured around 1,800.

The alleged mastermind behind the attacks, 36-year-old Moroccan Abdelkrim Mejjati, was not on the list of warrants. Mejjati was convicted in absentia of the deadly bombings in Casablanca last year, which killed 33 people and 12 suicide bombers.

Interior Minister Angel Acebes has named the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group as the main focus of investigation, but he insisted that other "terrorist" organisations had not been ruled out.

The following six men were named on the arrest warrants, which were sent out worldwide, not just to Britain, Germany and Morocco as previously reported:

• Moroccan Jamal Ahmidan, alias El Chino or Mowgli;
• Moroccan Said Berraj;
• Moroccan Abdennabi Kounjaa, alias Abdallah;
• Moroccan Mohammed Oulad Akcha;
• Moroccan Rachid Oulad Akcha;
• Tunisian Sarhane ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, alias El Tunecino.

They are all believed to have left Spain following the attacks after staying in a house in Chinchon, in Madrid Province.

The Moroccan brothers, Mohammed and Rachid Oulad Akcha, are reported to be related to the only woman charged in the case, Naima Oulad Akcha. Some of the other men have the same surnames as other suspects in custody or who have been questioned by investigators.

El Pais newspaper quotes sources close to the investigation as saying Moroccan Jamal Ahmidan and Tunisian Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet are believed to have been leaders of the group who carried out the train attacks.

This information is said to be partly based on interviews with suspects already in custody.

Charges

Sarhane ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, who has lived in Spain for 12 years, is said to have been followed and watched by anti-terrorist forces in the past, but his whereabouts are now unknown.

The Moroccans Said Berraj, Agdennabi Kounjaa and the Oulad Akcha brothers are wanted after supposedly being identified by police as part of the group who placed the rucksack bombs in the trains.

They are reported to have travelled between Spain and Morocco in the past few months, sometimes using illegal immigration networks.

Spanish police have 19 people in custody, including 11 Moroccans or Moroccan-born Spaniards, two Indians, two Spaniards and three Syrians.

Fourteen of the suspects have been provisionally charged with mass murder or collaborating with or belonging to a terrorist group.