Ana María Martín Fernández

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Ana María Martín Fernández worked at the Press Association in Madrid. She had studied psychology and wanted to open her own office. She was married with a four-year-old daughter and lived in the Santa Eugenia district. On the morning of 11 March, the couple took the little girl to school and then went their separate ways. Ana María Martín died on the train that was blown up opposite Calle Téllez.

11 March 2004 fell on a Thursday. Early that morning, a number of terrorists with links to Al-Qaeda planted thirteen bombs on four suburban trains covering routes running through Madrid. Ten of the bombs exploded between 7.37 and 7.39 am, when the trains were at Atocha, El Pozo and Santa Eugenia stations and alongside Calle Téllez. 191 people were killed in the attack and around 1,500 were wounded. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Spanish history. On 3 April 2004, agents from the Special Operations Group (GEO) were about to enter an apartment in Leganés where the perpetrators of the attacks were believed to be hiding when the terrorists detonated twenty kilograms of explosives in an act of collective suicide. The blast killed one of the officers, bringing the total number of people killed by the 11 March killers to 192.

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