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Born in: Honduras
Age: 37
Offspring: 6
Marital status: Married
Job: Shop assistant and cleaner
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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Laura Ramos, a native of Honduras, had been living in Spain for ten years. She had come to join her husband in his search for a better future. The couple had six children, four of whom were also living in Spain. She took the train each day to go to work as an assistant in a supermarket. Her husband normally took the car, but that day they were traveling together. Both were killed.

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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