Horror moment woman wearing Rambo-style bandanna and carrying gun sparks terror alert

A WOMAN wearing a Rambo-style bandanna and carrying a gun sparked a terror alert in Madrid. But why she was there surprised everyone.

‘Rambo’ sparks terror alert

THIS is the moment a woman wearing a Rambo-style bandanna and carrying a gun sparked a terror alert in a popular tourist square in Madrid.

Petrified witnesses called police after spotting the brunette with military attire picking herself up from the ground and slinging the weapon over her shoulder, reports The Sun.

Officers stopped her in Plaza de Espana, a large square in the centre of the city which is popular with tourists, before discovering to their amazement she was a Civil Guard on a training exercise.

She reportedly confessed to being a member of the law enforcement agency after initially claiming she belonged to a theatre group.

The rifle she was carrying turned out to be a fake.

Two colleagues dressed up as dancers who were also taking part in the bizarre Civil Guard tactical training exercise, were also forced to identify themselves while the officers checked their story out with their superior.

The scare came as the Spanish government maintains the country on a level four terror alert after the deadly tube and airport attacks in Brussels.

Politician Francisco Perez Esteban today branded the exercise “reckless”.

“It’s unacceptable that law enforcement agents carry out exercises of this sort in the street and cause unnecessary alarm when the Interior Ministry and the Interior Minister are sending out messages urging calm and caution among the public,” he said.

“A level four terror alert is reason enough for law enforcement agencies to refrain from these types of drills, without identification on them and with weapons which the public have no way of knowing whether they’re real or fake.”

A Civil Guard spokesman confirmed the woman filmed was on a field exercise as part of a training course but said she was not told to wear the clothes she dressed up in.

He also rubbished initial reports city hall officials had not been informed in advance.

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Last month a Nigerian sparked a scare in Fuencarral-El Pardo north of Madrid by walking down a street with a weapon bystanders took for a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder.

Footage taken by a witness showed the officers ordering him to drop it and lie on the ground as they approached him before one kicked it away and colleagues handcuffed him.

It was subsequently discovered he was carrying an air rifle which was a replica of an M-16 used by the US military.

Local reports at the time said the man was suspected of suffering a mental illness.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission