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Born in: Castilla-La Mancha
Age: 63
Offspring: 3
Marital status: Divorcee
Job: Housekeeper
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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Encarnación Mora Donoso, aged 63, was the oldest person to be killed in the attack. She was travelling to her job as a domestic worker in a house on Paseo de La Castellana when a bomb went off on her train at the El Pozo station. She had three children and was already a grandmother. She was about to retire to enjoy life with Rafa, her partner, who was also killed in the attack.

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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