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A Spanish court today overturned the convictions of four people found guilty in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings, drawing protests from victims of Europe's deadliest Islamist attack.

The court overturned a 2007 ruling, which found three of the men guilty of being members of an Islamist cell that carried out the bombings that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.