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Peru mourns victims of terrorist bombing in Madrid By Pablo Veramendi PeruToYou.com | |
| Peruvians joined the rest of the world this week in mourning the victims of the terrorist bombings in Madrid, but the attacks had special significance in Peru -- three of the 14 foreigners who died were from Peru. |
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Peru had more victims in the attacks than any country except Spain. The others among the 14 foreign victims were two from Honduras, two from Poland and a person each from France, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Colombia, Morocco and Guinea-Bissau.
The Peruvian victims were identified as: -- Juan Antonio Sánchez Quispe -- Neil Astocóndor -- Carlos Fernández Dávila The death toll climbed to 199 on Friday with the death of a 7-month-old girl. Of the more than 1,400 wounded, 367 people remained hospitalized, about 50 in serious condition. Of the dead, 84 bodies remained unidentified. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, only the Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people in 2002 have been more deadly. Workers in surgical masks and cutting torches began dismantling sections of the bombed-out trains, taking samples for study. Friday night's massive rallies in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia and other Spanish cities and towns were a remarkable show of unity in a nation divided by regional loyalties and languages. "We all need to be here to repudiate these killings. All of us. It is our duty," said Manuel Velasco, a university professor who was drenched from the rain. In a chilling account of the bombings, Spanish radio station Cadena Ser broadcast a 12-second recording of an unidentified woman who had called a colleague's voice mail after an initial blast on a train at the Atocha station. The woman, who survived, was in the process of fleeing as she frantically says: "I'm in Atocha. There's a bomb on the train! We had to ..." and then two more blasts are heard amid her screams. | |
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