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Born in: Cuba
Age: 27
Offspring: 0
Marital status: Single
Job: Construction worker
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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Michael Michell Rodriguez (28) lived in Vallecas. During the day, he worked in construction and at night he handed out advertising at the door of a Latino discotheque in Madrid’s Calle Huertas. He had lived in Spain for three years and hoped to return to his native Cuba to install running water in his father’s house. He sent all the money he could back home in remittances.

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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