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Céline SCHMITT

Madrid train bombings: An open wound, twenty years on

Revisited © FRANCE 24

It was one of Spain's deadliest terrorist attacks in history. On the morning of March 11, 2004, ten bombs exploded almost simultaneously at the Atocha train station in the Spanish capital Madrid. Nearly 200 people were killed and more than 1,500 wounded. Twenty years later, survivors of the incident are still waiting to know the truth behind the bombings.

On the morning of March 11, 2004, a series of ten coordinated explosions on four commuter trains bound for Madrid's Atocha station during rush hour, killing 191 people.

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