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Born in: Madrid
Age: 30
Offspring: 1
Marital status: Married
Job: Secretary of the Environment Council of the City of Madrid
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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Carmen Mónica Martínez was a few days away from her thirty-first birthday. She lived her life for her daughter, Verónica, aged four. She worked in the Environment Department at Madrid City Council and enjoyed listening to music when she was commuting from her home in the Santa Eugenia district to her office in Recoletos.

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 ensuing blast killed one of the officers, bringing the total number of people killed by the 11 March bombers to 192.

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