• Events: A bricklayer from Toledo and a Bulgarian who went to a soup kitchen, the two victims of the explosion who had yet to be identified

  • Events: The balcony of hope of confinement, shattered in the explosion of the parish building on Toledo Street

"As a child he

was a real

junk. Always messing it up wherever he was," recalls Ana tearfully. It's not really his real name: "I'd rather you don't say my name,

the important thing now is him

."

That "he" is Rubén Pérez Ayala

, the priest who, at age 36, has become the fourth victim of the gas explosion that devastated the building near his parish, Nuestra Señora de la Paloma, in Madrid on Thursday.

Life escaped from him due to one of the multiple traumatism

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