Leganés
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Leganés is a town in central Spain. Part of the greater Madrid conurbation - principally working class satellite-city with a population of 184481(January 1, 2005)- it is located about 10 km southwest of the city centre On 3 April 2004 Leganés achieved a measure of unwanted notoriety when five of the suspects in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks blew themselves up in an apartment building as police moved in to arrest them. All five were killed, along with one GEO police officer.
Leganés houses a branch of the Universidad Carlos III, specifically the Escuela Politecnica Superior (EPS). The other branches of Carlos III are in Getafe and Colmenarejo. This is the only of the three campuses that has a swimming pool.
It is connected to Madrid via the Cercanías (Train, line C5), and Metrosur, one of the lines of Metro.
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