Casualties of the 11 March 2004 Madrid bombings
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Although initially 202 casualties were reported in the March 11th Madrid bombings, the later analysis of the corpses showed that 190 people died. The explosions were so violent that many times it was very difficult to identify the different parts of the same body.
To commemorate the victims the Forest of the Departed, a memorial monument in the El Retiro Park in Madrid, was constructed near Atocha Station, where most of the victims died. It consists of one tree for each person killed. For reasons explained below, the monument is made up of 192 trees instead of 190.
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[edit] Casualties by place
- 67 died at El Pozo Station.
- 64 died next to Téllez Street.
- 34 died at Atocha Station.
- 16 died at Santa Eugenia Station.
The remaining people died in hospital.
[edit] The wounded
Officially 2051 people were injured;of whom 82 were in critical condition. They were carried by different means to various hospitals in the Madrid Autonomous Community, principally to the two largest public hospitals in Madrid : Hospital Gregorio Marañon (312 casualties) and Hospital Doce de Octubre (242 casualties). Other hospitals involved were the Clínico San Carlos, Hospital de la Princesa, Hospital de la Paz, Hospital Fundación de Alcorcón, the El Niño Jesús Hospital and the Hospital Central de la Defensa. The amount of resources mobilized to the care of the wounded was unprecedented in Spain ; with more than 70,000 health personnel involved, 291 ambulances for transport , 200 firemen and police vehicles. The health authority activated the emergency plan for disasters, which consists of fitting out all the operating theatres in the hospitals, postponement of all non-urgent scheduled operations and the call of duty of all available health staff.
[edit] Victims by nationality
The victims came from 17 countries: Spain (141), Romania (16), Ecuador (6), Poland (4), Bulgaria (4), Peru (3), Dominican Republic (2), Colombia (2), Morocco (2), Ukraine (2), Honduras (2), Senegal (1), Cuba (1), Chile (1), Brazil (1), France (1) and the Philippines (1).
[edit] Notes
Lists of casualties usually show 192 persons instead of the 190 mentioned above. The reason is that those lists also include:
- Nicolás Jiménez Morán, a baby that was born on May 10th and died two days later of the injuries the mother sustained in the bombings.
- Francisco Javier Torrenteras Gadea (Spanish, 42), a member of the Grupo Especial de Operaciones, who did not die in the March 11th bombings, but in the explosion in Leganés when those who were apparently responsible for the bombing killed themselves on the 3rd of April, having been surrounded by the security forces.
This is also the reason that there are 192 trees in the Forest of the Departed monument, and not just 190, as mentioned.
