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by Michaela Cancella-Kieffer and Hui Min Neo MADRID, Spain (AFP) — An alleged member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge Tuesday that he and other suspects had planned a bigger attack, a judicial source said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, was the first of four surviving suspects to be questioned in Madrid’s National Court, which deals with terror-related cases, over the attacks in Barcelona and a seaside […]
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Police said Sunday they have found more than 120 gas canisters in a house in Alcanar, where suspects of this week’s twin assaults in Spain were believed to be building bombs for “one or more” attacks in Barcelona. “We’re starting to see clearly that (the Alcanar house) was the place where they were preparing explosives for one or more attacks in the city of Barcelona,” police chief of Catalonia region Josep […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The suspected jihadists behind Spain’s twin terror attacks are thought to have formed a cell in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains where they allegedly planned large-scale assaults. Moroccans and a Spaniard The suspects are all youths — most of them Moroccans who lived in Ripoll, a town in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region where both of the attack sites were also located. Police have launched a manhunt for Younes Abouyaaqoub, […]
(Eagle News) — A Filipina tourist in Barcelona recalled the horror of the August 17 van attack in Las Ramblas, saying this was the first time she had ever witnessed such an event. A day after the incident, Erha Grace Ebahay Quatropani, recalled how she had heard many people shouting and at first thought it was just a case of bag snatching, in the tourist-filled area of Las Ramblas, a popular spot in Barcelona, when […]
Paris, France (AFP) — The twin vehicle attacks in Spain that left 14 dead and over 100 more injured in a bustling tourist area of Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils affected people of some three dozen nationalities. The dead and injured came from countries as varied as France, Venezuela, Australia, Ireland, Peru, Algeria and China. – Dead- — SPAIN Three Spaniards were killed, according to a spokesman for Catalonia’s executive. — UNITED […]
by Daniel Bosque with Laurence Boutreux in Cambrils Agence France Presse BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Suspects in Spain’s deadly twin terror attacks were preparing an even bigger assault that was foiled as events unfolded, police said Friday as the death toll rose to 14 with over 100 injured. Officers also said the driver of the white van which mowed down tourists in the packed centre of Barcelona Thursday evening may have been among suspects […]
https://youtu.be/unHt8oMDrK0 Police are now probing the second car attack in Spain, in Cambrils, a city 120 kilometres south of Barcelona, where an Audi A3 car hit pedestrians, injuring six civilians — one of them in a critical condition — and one police officer. Police shot dead four of the Cambrils attackers and a fifth later died of his injuries, according to the government of the Spanish region of Catalonia where both Barcelona and Cambrils are […]
At least 13 people were killed and more than 100 others injured after drivers slammed into pedestrians in two quick-succession, separate attacks on Barcelona’s most popular street and in another busy Spanish seaside city. What happened? Around 4:50 pm (1450 GMT) on Thursday, a vehicle ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians on the famous Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona. The promenade in the heart of the city centre is one of Barcelona’s busiest streets, normally […]
CAMBRILS, Spain (AFP) — Seven people were hurt when “alleged terrorists” drove into pedestrians in the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils early Friday before being shot dead by security forces, just hours after a similar attack in nearby Barcelona. The Audi A3 car rammed into people on the seaside promenade of the tourist city 120 kilometers south of Barcelona, where a van had earlier sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people […]
