Neil Hebe Astocondor Masgo

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Neil Hebe Astocondor always hoped that his wife and two children, aged twelve and eight, could leave their native Peru and join him in Spain. He had obtained a residence permit and was working for a removal company. He planned to buy a van and set up his own business. On 11 March, he left Coslada and boarded the suburban train as he did every morning. He was killed in the explosion at Atocha station.

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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