Spanish police on Monday arrested a convicted pedophile who had his pardon revoked by Morocco's King Mohamed VI after it sparked angry protests in the north African country.

Daniel Galvan Vina, a Spaniard found guilty of raping 11 children aged between four and 15 in Morocco and sentenced in September 2011 to 30 years in prison there, was detained in Murcia in southeastern Spain, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said.

Spain said Monday it was in talks with Morocco on the fate of a Spanish pedophile who had his pardon revoked after it sparked angry protests in the north African country.

King Mohamed VI of Morocco on Sunday revoked a pardon granted to Daniel Galvan Vina, who was convicted of raping 11 children aged between four and 15 and sentenced in September 2011 to 30 years in prison in Morocco.

Moroccans furious over the pardon of a Spanish pedophile convicted of raping 11 children between four and 15 years of age, are planning more protests after demonstrations were brutally repressed Friday.

Social media sites have called for protests in Casablanca and Rabat on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Moroccan police on Friday dispersed a crowd of several thousand people protesting against a royal pardon handed to a Spanish man reportedly convicted of raping 11 children.

Dozens of people including photographers and reporters were injured in clashes with authorities, who stepped in to prevent the protest in front of the parliament building in the capital Rabat.

Firefighters brought under control a major forest blaze in central Spain on Friday but the country remained on high alert for fires in the sweltering summer heat, authorities said.

Spain's agriculture ministry said in a statement it had sent aid including water-dumping airplanes and helicopters to help fight 11 wildfires across the country on Friday.

A Spanish train was hurtling around a bend at 179 kph (111 mph), more than twice the speed limit, when it leapt off the tracks in a disaster that killed 79 people, a report on its "black box" recorders revealed Friday.

The train driver was on the telephone to the on-board conductor and stopped speaking just 11 seconds before the derailment near the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela on July 24, said the report.

Spanish authorities have seized 500 kilos (1,100 pounds) of cocaine from a yacht off the Canary Islands, in an operation that smashed a ring that smuggled drugs from Latin America to the archipelago, the interior ministry said Thursday.

Five people were arrested -- two Spaniards, an Irish national, an American and an Australian woman -- in the probe, the ministry said in a statement.

An African migrant died while seven others were rescued as they tried to make land on Spain's southern shore in an inflatable boat, the Spanish coastguard said Thursday.

A coastguard ship intercepted the boat about 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of the Spanish port of Tarifa in the early hours of Thursday and rescued its eight passengers, but while they were being transported to land one of the migrants died of unknown causes, a coastguard spokesman said.

The tiny British-held territory of Gibraltar complained to the European Union Thursday over delays at its border crossing with Spain which it said were "deliberately" caused by Spanish authorities.

Over the weekend the government of Gibraltar said cars entering and leaving the territory on Spain's southern tip were made to wait up to six hours to cross the border as Spanish authorities searched "practically every vehicle".

Hundreds of emergency workers on Thursday battled a wildfire that drove 130 people from their homes as it raged out of control in central Spain, authorities said.

The blaze had destroyed 1,300 hectares (3,200 acres) since breaking out on Wednesday in a field near Valdepenas de la Sierra, in a farming area some 80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast of Madrid.