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Born in: Madrid
Age: 28
Offspring: 0
Marital status: Single
Job: Teleoperator in the information department of the Tax Agency
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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María Pilar Pérez was 28 years old and had been working for a month as a temporary employee at the revenue office. She spent much of her free time studying for a permanent position. She lived in Coslada with her mother and brother. Her father had died when she was 14. Her body was identified thanks to the photograph of her nephew that she was carrying in her handbag.

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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