Thursday's bomb attacks in Madrid railway stations killed 192 people and wounded 1400, the Spanish interior ministry said
Published:
12 March 2004 y., Friday
The figures updated a previous toll of 190 dead and more than 1,200 injured.
Interior Minister Angel Acebes told a media conference that 44 of those injured were in a critical condition in hospital.
The coordinated series of 10 blasts constituted the worst-ever attack in Spain, and the worst terror attack in Europe since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people. Officials cautioned that their toll was preliminary. The blasts went off in four trains and three railway stations in the southeast of the capital as morning commuters were heading to work.
A makeshift morgue was set up in an exhibition centre to take the bodies and remains of those killed. Authorities said it would likely take until early today to identify all the victims.
The Spanish government initially blamed the atrocity on ETA, the Basque separatist group that has waged a nearly four-decade campaign of violence for an independent homeland. But later, a London-based Arabic newspaper said it had received a statement from al-Qaeda claiming responsibility.
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