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Born in: Madrid
Age: 22
Offspring: 0
Marital status: Single
Job: Higher Grade Student Professional training in electronics and business maintenance
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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Jorge Rodríguez was 22 years old and was studying a higher vocational education degree in electronics and company maintenance at the Salesianos school in Atocha. He had a very close relationship with his father, with whom he had lived since his parent divorced. Every day, father and son got the suburban train from Alcalá de Henares, where they lived, to Atocha. It was there that they were both killed in the terrorist attacks.

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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