Obviously, you suppose that the 8th of March - International Women's Day - is the happiest holiday for our beautiful ladies. Yeah! I'd agreed with you before I found out the story, told by a Spanish woman Esmeralda. To tell the truth, it was absolutely terrifying!
According to Esmeralda, last year she and her boyfriend Roberto went from Madrid, where they lived, to Malorca to celebrate the 8th of March. It had to be an amazing present for her and it was. They had three unforgettable days of love in this Spanish paradise. But not everything was as ideal and dreamy as they wanted.
The 11th of March was the day when the happy couple had to come back home. So early in the morning the train, by which they had arrived, was approaching the station Atocha. It has just stopped when suddenly the terrible nosing explosion was rumbled.
Esmeralda couldn't understand what had happened. She claimed that there was a real panic - everybody was running but no one knew where. Lots of people were crippled, groaning and begged for help. Mangled trains were on fire!...
Esmeralda insisted that the railway carriage, in which they were, hadn't been damaged, whereas Roberto was certain that it had. As he said, so the other side of it caught fire and from there it could be heard people's moaning and crying. They were in shock for some time but then they came to themselves when a wild noise broke out from the train. And nobody could remember what exactly happened after that.
As Roberto mentioned, the mobile network on this day was overworked because people were trying to find out about their relatives who could have suffered in this horrific act of terrorism, and all the medical centers in Madrid needed blood for transfusion to suffering people.
As a result, on that day 182 people died from nearly ten explosions at railway stations.
In the end, I reckon, it became the bloodiest celebration of Women's Day in all modern history not only for Spain but even for the World!