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Spain Arrests Five More in Train Bombing

NPR | By Sylvia Poggioli,

Michele Norris

Published March 18, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Spanish police arrest five more people in connection with the March 11 terrorist attack on the Madrid train system. Investigators believe some of the suspects are linked to suicide bombings in Casablanca last May. The Madrid attack's death toll rose to 202 when a 22-year-old Peruvian woman died of wounds suffered in the blast. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Sylvia Poggioli.

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Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.

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