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(回答先: 続報、マドリッド列車爆破:爆発は4つ、死者130名を越す【スペイン版9.11】 投稿者 バルセロナより愛を込めて 日時 2004 年 3 月 11 日 21:03:52)
英国のインディペンデント紙は死者が170人で重軽傷者が400人以上との見出しです。
さらに死傷者がさらに増える可能性が高いとのこと。ちなみにETAの犯行声明は出ていな
いようです。
直感として、このテロは米英スペインの仕業のような気がします。
これと関係あるのかな?
▲British 'mercenary chief' faces execution in Zimbabwe
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=500019
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▲170 killed in Madrid rail explosions
By Stephen Mackey, AP
11 March 2004
Powerful explosions rocked three Madrid railway stations today just days before Spain's general elections, killing more than 170 rush?hour commuters and wounding more than 400.
"This is a massacre," government spokesman Eduardo Zaplana said.
In the attack, which was initially blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA, bombs exploded around 7.30am (0630 GMT) in a commuter train arriving at Atocha station, a bustling hub for underground, commuter and long?distance trains in Spain's capital.
Blasts also rocked trains or platforms at two stations on a commuter line leading to Atocha. The government said there were four blasts altogether.
People in tears streamed away from Atocha as rescue workers carried bodies covered in sheets of gold fabric. Hospitals appealed for blood donations.
Shards of twisted metal were scattered by rails in the Atocha station at the spot where an explosion severed a train in two.
Rescue workers were overwhelmed, said Enrique Sanchez, an ambulance driver who went to Santa Eugenia station, some 6 miles southeast of Atocha station.
"There was one carriage totally blown apart. People were scattered all over the platforms. I saw legs and arms. I won't forget this ever. I've seen horror."
A total of at least 131 people were killed, Interior Ministry spokesman Richard Ibanez said. Reports said hundreds more were injured and the death toll was expected to rise.
There was no claim of responsibility, but officials immediately blamed ETA. The toll would make today the deadliest day ever in decades of attacks by ETA. Until now, it was 21 killed in a supermarket blast in Barcelona in 1987.
Spanish officials had said ETA was facing difficulties following the arrest last year of more than 150 members or collaborators in Spain and France, including the leaders of ETA's commando network. Last year ETA killed three people, compared to 23 in 2000 and 15 in 2001.
ETA often phones in warnings before detonating bombs, but this time it did not, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said. The bombs went off at the peak of the morning rush hour.
"Those responsible for this tragedy will be arrested and they will pay very dearly for it," Acebes said at Atocha.
The government convened anti?ETA rallies nationwide for Friday evening.
"What a horror," said the Basque regional president, Juan Jose Ibarretxe, who insisted ETA does not represent the Basque people. "When ETA attacks, the Basque heart breaks into a thousand pieces," he said in the Basque capital Vitoria.
"This is one of those days that you don't want to live through," said opposition Socialist party spokesman Jesus Caldera. "ETA must be defeated," referring to the group as "those terrorists, those animals."
In London, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said it looked like "an ETA terrorist outrage."
"We stand to give all kinds of material help to the Spanish authorities," Straw said.
Police had been on high alert for Basque separatist violence ahead of general elections on Sunday, in which regional tensions and how to fight ETA have been key themes. The ruling party candidate for prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said he was calling off the rest of his campaign.
On February 29, police intercepted a Madrid?bound van packed with more than 1,100 pounds of explosives, and blamed ETA. On Christmas eve, police thwarted an attempted bombing at Chamartin, another Madrid rail station, and arrested two suspected ETA members.
Until today, ETA had been blamed for more than 800 deaths in its decades?old campaign to carve an independent Basque homeland out of territory straddling northern Spain and southwest France.
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=500039