Thu, 11 Mar 2004

Madrid bombings

So everybody knows by now that three trains were bombed early this morning in the Spanish capital Madrid. The bombs went off at rush hour, when the trains were packed with workers, students and kids that were on their way to work, school or uni.

The footage on TV is quite horrible, but most of the info coming from the TV station sounds like unconfirmed rumours. As time passes, more and more officials talk about ETA being behind this mass murder, even if it's not their "style" (when they place bombs on public places, they use to call some newspaper to notify where the bomb is and at what time it's programmed to go off). On Sunday, there's a presidential election in Spain, so who knows if this is their way of doing their campaigning. Others talk about some Al Qaeda-like organization doing this, but as I said, nothing is clear right now, besides the number of dead (173 at this time) which will keep rising as hours pass.

Terrible :(