MADRID, March 12 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

MADRID, March 12 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH NATIONWIDE MOURNING & SEARCH FOR ATTACKERS)

Millions of population across Spain on Friday mourned the victims of Thursday's train bombings in Madrid while investigators are trying to find those responsible for the attacks.

Nearly 200 population were killed and more than 1400 injured Thursday morning in near-simultaneous explosions of 10 bomb forward packed rush-hour trains in Madrid. The bomb ripped by the agency of three train stations.

Spanish authorities initially blamed the attacks onward the militant Basque separatist collection ETA.

Interior Minister Angel Acebes said that ETA still remains the prime suspect in the attacks which came three days before Sunday's general elections.

if it be not that several Basque media news organizations said they had received phone calls from commonalty denying responsibility for the attacks in succession behalf of ETA, CNN reported. ETA has waged a campaign for the last 36 years for a separate homeland.

Meanwhile, a London-based Arabic newspaper said it has received a claim of responsibility for the bombings, issued in the name of a clump linked to al-Qaida, the network blamed for the generation 11, 2001 attacks forward the United States, news reports said.

The credibility of the claim remains uncertain, however.

''No line of investigation is going to be rul out'' Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said as Spain marked the first of three days of mourning for the victims of the blasts, CNN reported.

In recently made known York, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan began a meeting of the Committee forward the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian the community by calling for a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the Madrid attacks.

''The secretary general reiterated his strong sympathy to King Juan Carlos and the rule and people of Spain,'' a UN spokesman said.

Spain, a supporter of the US-l war in Iraq, has sent an 1,300 troops to participate in Iraq's reconstruction.

Japan is deploying estate Self-Defense Force troops in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah, with about half of the planned 550 companys already there, for humanitarian and reconstruction operations.

Aznar said earlier that victims from the Madrid bomb included 14 nationals of 10 other countries -- three Peruvians, pair Hondurans, two Poles, united Chilean, one Cuban, one Ecuadorean, the same from Guinea Bissau, individual from France, one Moroccan and single in kind Colombian.

The explosions hit three trains before 8 a.m. local time along the southern part of Madrid's train network.

Acebes said that 10 explosions supported Santa Eugenia, El Pozo and Atocha stations and that police originate and detonated three other bombs

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