Bomb victims remembered

Spaniards clutched flowers and fell silent yesterday as they marked the seventh anniversary of the bombings that killed 191 people on Madrid's commuter rail system in Europe's worst Islamic terror attack.

In Puerta del Sol square, politicians dressed in black placed a laurel wreath at a stone plaque etched in memory of the dead and the nearly 2,000 people injured on 11 March, 2004. Elsewhere, a granite monument was inaugurated at the El Pozo railway station, one of four places where a total of ten backpacks stuffed with explosives and shrapnel detonated inside morning rush-hour trains.

In 2007, a court convicted 21 people, many of them Moroccans, for the attacks.