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Born in: Madrid
Offspring: 0
Marital status: Married
Job: Head of IT and Advanced Communications projects
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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Marisol Rodríguez took the train from Alcalá de Henares station as she had every working day for the past 17 years to go to her job as a project manager in advanced computing and communications. She had been married for twenty years and had a thirteen-year-old son. She loved culture and travel and had travelled with her husband to China, Nepal, Egypt and elsewhere. They dreamed of retiring to Bali.

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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