SPANIARDS lit candles, laid flowers and observed a long silence yesterday to mark the first anniversary of the country's worst terror attack, when 10 bombs ripped through commuter trains, killing 191 and wounding more than 1,500.

A CAR bomb exploded near Madrid’s main convention centre yesterday, injuring 43 people, hours before Spanish and Mexican leaders were due there and after a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA.

SPANISH TV yesterday broadcast chilling security-camera footage of the Madrid train bombings in which 191 people died. It showed at least one bomb exploding inside a train at Atocha station.

Spanish TV broadcast chilling security-camera footage of the Madrid terror attack today. It showed at least one bomb exploding inside a train at Atocha station.

A Spanish radio station broadcast a chilling 12-second recording of a young woman shrieking at Atocha station in Madrid as bombs exploded around her. She survived.

Traumatised by terrorism, Spaniards today prepared for general elections as a nation in grief, with the ruling party favoured to win and insisting that Basque separatists remain the prime suspect in the rail bombings that killed 199 people.

Millions of Spaniards took to the streets, chanting “Cowards” and “Assassins” in a protest against the Madrid bombings that killed 199 people.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar pledged today to find those responsible for the worst terrorist attack in Spanish history as the nation mourned the 198 who died in the string of train bombings.

Anibal Altamirano said fellow commuters around him were too stunned to move when the first bomb blew apart a train.

A series of bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession, blowing apart four commuter trains, killing at least 192 people and wounding more than 1,400.

Dismembered bodies entangled in the metal wreckage of train carriages. Amputated legs and arms scattered on station platforms. Thousands of people, many of them schoolchildren, fleeing in panic.

Powerful bombs ripped through three busy Madrid railway stations today just three days before general elections, killing at least 173 rush-hour commuters and wounding more than 600 in Spain’s worst terrorist attack.

Powerful explosions rocked three Madrid rail stations today – just three days before Spain’s general election – killing at least 131 rush-hour commuters and wounding more than 400 in what officials called the deadliest attack ever by the Basque separatist group ETA.

A string of powerful bomb explosions rocked three Madrid railway stations today just days before Spain’s general election, killing at least 131 rush-hour commuters and injuring hundreds more in what officials called the deadliest attack ever by the Basque separatist group ETA.

A string of powerful explosions rocked several Madrid railway stations on the eve of Spain’s general elections, killing at least 30 people in what could be the deadliest attack ever by the Basque separatist group ETA.

At least 15 people were killed and scores were injured when powerful explosions rocked several rail stations during the morning rush hour in Madrid today.