Six died in Madrid flat blast
2004-04-06 17:21
Madrid - Six suspects from Madrid's March 11 train bombings blew themselves up, rather than five as reported, following a police raid on an apartment in the Spanish capital, sources close to the enquiry said on Tuesday.
The sources said an ongoing search of the apartment in the southern suburb of Leganes had uncovered human remains of a sixth suspect believed killed after the raid on Saturday.
"The study (of the remains) confirms there was a sixth body," the sources said on condition of anonymity.
To date, authorities have determined the identities of four of the six, several of whom are deemed to have had major roles in the planning and the execution of the bomb attacks on four Madrid commuter trains which killed 191 people in Spain's worst ever terrorist attack.
One was the presumed mastermind of the bombings - Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, known as "The Tunisian" - while another was Jamal Ahmidan, a Moroccan believed to have been the leader of the bombing team.
Another key suspect, Moroccan Jamal Zougam, is in custody facing provisional charges of murder and terrorism along with 14 other detainees.
The other two bodies identified after Saturday's raid were those of Moroccan pair Abdennabi Kounjaa and Asri Rifat Anouar, the latter's name surfacing in the inquiry for the first time.
- AFP