This came from BBC:
"This is our 9/11" is a common feeling in Madrid and across the country as Spaniards awake the morning after the devastating bomb attacks on trains in the capital.
Spain's 11-M, as many of the papers here have dubbed Thursday's "Day of Infamy", has shocked the people of Spain to the core.
Government ministers have announced three days of mourning and walking through the streets of Madrid you can almost feel the weight of the shroud on the city's shoulders.
The imposing Atocha train station, where 198 people were killed in two explosions, has become a focus for people's grief and sheer disbelief at the scale of what had happened.
More people have now died in the blasts than in any other attack on Spanish soil since the Civil War in 1936. There are more victims than in the nightclub attack in Bali in 2002.
'Barbarism'
Outside Atocha Station, couples and friends walk slowly past, some leaving flowers or lighting candles, others just stopping to look as security services and rail workers continue their investigations.
"I came to see where it happened, to share the intensity of the situation," said builder Jose Manuel Gonzalez, 46.
It could have been me, it could have been him
Juan Luis Picotoso
"It just makes you feel so angry that you can't stop these fanatics. They have no love in their hearts, no love for themselves.
"Now we know how the Americans felt inside in 2001."
Another passer-by muttered quietly, "It is sheer barbarism."
But the attack has not cowed the spirit of the Madrilenos, who say they still feel safe in their city.
"It could have been me, it could have been him, but it's something you can't really prevent and it could happen anywhere," said quality technician Juan Luis Picotoso, 30.
His friend Pablo Permuja, 24, places a placard at one of the make-shift shrines outside the station with the slogan: "With the victims, with the Constitution and against terrorism" - the same message that is expected to be reinforced by thousands of people at a demonstration on Friday night.
"It makes you feel impotent, sad, angry and wanting revenge," said the student. "But it doesn't make me feel less safe. The police do a good job."
In the hours of stunned disbelief that followed the blasts, evening television programmes ran phone-ins with distressed witnesses, victims and others affected by the tragedy.
Night-time radio stations tried to offer some comfort in their playlists.
The choice of Bob Dylan's Knocking on Heaven's Door, Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven followed by U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday may seem a crass choice to outsiders, but the emotional DJs simply tried to offer comfort and vent the emotions others struggled to put into words.
Nightmare vision
Friday morning's papers relived the nightmare of the previous day, personal accounts and descriptions reinforced by graphic images of the carnage.
"In 10 metres around me there was not one complete human body, only remains," said one medical worker investigating the scene of one explosion at Atocha.
There were howls of anguish from the Spanish papers
"Yesterday's date will remain a black day in the memory of Spaniards and Europeans," said El Pais newspaper.
"This country has just experienced a form of terrorism of which the dimension and cruelty has not been seen here before."
Speculation about who is behind the attack, be it the Basque separatist group Eta or al-Qaeda, continues.
The paper suggests that if it is the latter, provoked by Spain's support for the war in Iraq, "that cannot help but sow a deep discomfort".
El Razon, with the simple headline "11-M", says that "in the midst of the pain and anger, while the soul suffers feelings of vengeance, we can only shout that they will not defeat us, they will not achieve anything, ever, against freedom".
El Mundo repeats the words of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar - that "this 11 March will be known as the Day of Infamy" and will remain as 11-M in the memory of all Spaniards.
"M for Madrid, M for Muerte [death] and M for martyrdom which cries out for justice for the spilt blood."
ABC says nothing will be the same again.
"The worst has happened," it says.
Few smiles
"Madrid, like New York, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Karbala, has suffered its own terrorist holocaust and from now on nothing will be as it was before."
As the television stations report updates of victims in the hospitals, where there are still a number of critical patients, and re-run images of the day, the city is getting back to work.
There are few smiles on the streets and heads go up at the sound of a siren.
Shops and trains are due to stop work at midday for 15 minutes as a mark of respect.
Then thousands are expected to take to the streets around Spain in a demonstration for peace at 1900.