El Pozo Station is a Cercanías station in Vallecas neighborhood (Madrid). It was opened on July 15, 1992, and it is located in El Pozo area. It belongs to lines C-2 and C-7 of Cercanías Madrid.
On the morning of March 11, 2004, a double-decker commuter train exploded with two bombs at this station, thus killing 68 people. It was later discovered that the Islamic terrorist cell Al-Qaeda was behind the attack. In 2011, a monument made by the architect with the collaboration of several Spanish artists, including Juan Genovés, Forges, and , was inaugurated near the station in memory of those who died in the attacks of March 2004.
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