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Madrid explosions - Snapshot of latest developments - 1315 GMT
Here is a rundown of the latest news on explosions in Madrid that have killed at least 173 people:
NEWS
* 173 killed in simultaneous explosions on packed Madrid trains at three train stations, 600 wounded
* 13 explosions in total, three controlled by security forces
* No warning given
* No claim of responsibility
* Spain blames Basque separatist group ETA
* Radical Basque nationalist says he does not think ETA carried out the attacks
* Spanish election on Sunday, but campaigning suspended after the bombs. Debate over ETA had played large part in the campaign
* Spain is part of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq
QUOTES FROM THE SCENE
* "The train was cut open like a can of tuna. We've never seen anything like it in all the years we've been doing this. We didn't know who to treat first" -- ambulance driver Enrique Sanchez, one of the first on the scene
* "Right now we can say that there are 20, 25 people wounded, seriously wounded. They can die at any moment...There are a lot of bodies in the trains that have not been taken out" -- emergency doctor at one railway station
* "It's like a war zone here. This is so savage you can't even describe it, Madrid is totally paralysed, it's total chaos, it's horrible" -- Carmen Perez, a lawyer in her 40s
POLITICAL REACTION
* "We don't have ETA claiming these attacks but (they) bear its signatures...ETA is aiming at disrupting democracy in Spain" -- Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio
INTERNATIONAL REACTION
* "An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror" -- Russian President Vladimir Putin
* Spain and Europe must "continue to work together to fight terrorism, because that is the only thing we can do" -- U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Rockwell Schnabel
* "This terrible attack underlines the threat that we all continue to face from terrorism in many countries and why we all must work together internationally to safeguard our peoples against such attacks and defeat terrorism" -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair
* "The pope wishes to reiterate his firm and absolute abhorrence of such unjustifiable acts that offend God and violate the fundamental right to life" -- Pope John Paul
* "This is not a political act, it is a criminal act against defenceless people, a perverse action of terrorists" -- European Commission President Romano Prodi
ANALYST COMMENT
"Even though ETA has been partially wiped out, there is still a radical core that has survived and this core apparently has no qualms about killing mass numbers of people... They've perhaps taken al Qaeda as a role model... They've seen that's how to get media attention" -- Joachim Krause, University of Kiel security expert
kam jetuar dy vjet ne Madrid dhe qytet me te qete mendoja se veshtier se kishte...me vjen tmerresisht keq
Madrid explosions - Snapshot of latest developments - 1315 GMT
Here is a rundown of the latest news on explosions in Madrid that have killed at least 173 people:
NEWS
* 173 killed in simultaneous explosions on packed Madrid trains at three train stations, 600 wounded
* 13 explosions in total, three controlled by security forces
* No warning given
* No claim of responsibility
* Spain blames Basque separatist group ETA
* Radical Basque nationalist says he does not think ETA carried out the attacks
* Spanish election on Sunday, but campaigning suspended after the bombs. Debate over ETA had played large part in the campaign
* Spain is part of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq
QUOTES FROM THE SCENE
* "The train was cut open like a can of tuna. We've never seen anything like it in all the years we've been doing this. We didn't know who to treat first" -- ambulance driver Enrique Sanchez, one of the first on the scene
* "Right now we can say that there are 20, 25 people wounded, seriously wounded. They can die at any moment...There are a lot of bodies in the trains that have not been taken out" -- emergency doctor at one railway station
* "It's like a war zone here. This is so savage you can't even describe it, Madrid is totally paralysed, it's total chaos, it's horrible" -- Carmen Perez, a lawyer in her 40s
POLITICAL REACTION
* "We don't have ETA claiming these attacks but (they) bear its signatures...ETA is aiming at disrupting democracy in Spain" -- Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio
INTERNATIONAL REACTION
* "An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror" -- Russian President Vladimir Putin
* Spain and Europe must "continue to work together to fight terrorism, because that is the only thing we can do" -- U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Rockwell Schnabel
* "This terrible attack underlines the threat that we all continue to face from terrorism in many countries and why we all must work together internationally to safeguard our peoples against such attacks and defeat terrorism" -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair
* "The pope wishes to reiterate his firm and absolute abhorrence of such unjustifiable acts that offend God and violate the fundamental right to life" -- Pope John Paul
* "This is not a political act, it is a criminal act against defenceless people, a perverse action of terrorists" -- European Commission President Romano Prodi
ANALYST COMMENT
"Even though ETA has been partially wiped out, there is still a radical core that has survived and this core apparently has no qualms about killing mass numbers of people... They've perhaps taken al Qaeda as a role model... They've seen that's how to get media attention" -- Joachim Krause, University of Kiel security expert
kam jetuar dy vjet ne Madrid dhe qytet me te qete mendoja se veshtier se kishte...me vjen tmerresisht keq
