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Three Chinese students hurt in car attack near Toulouse

  by Hugues Jeanneaud © Agence France-Presse TOULOUSE, France (AFP) — A man “deliberately” rammed his car into a group of pedestrians, injuring three Chinese students one of them seriously, near the French city of Toulouse on Friday, authorities said, adding that the attack was not linked to terrorism. The 28-year-old driver, who was arrested immediately afterwards in the city’s Blagnac suburb, “purposefully hit three people” on a crosswalk, Toulouse prosecutor Pierre-Yves Couilleau said. The suspect, a […]

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Spain attacks: What we know about the suspects

  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, […]

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Video: Filipina recalls Barcelona van attack; whole of Spain in mourning

(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 […]

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Dozens of nationalities among Spain attack victims

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 […]

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Spain suspects planned bigger attack, say police

  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 […]

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Deadly trend: Fatal vehicle-ramming attacks in Europe that shocked the world

  (Eagle News) — Since July 2016, Europe has seen a deadly trend of attacks where “terrorists” used vehicles to kill and harm innocent people – bystanders, tourists, pedestrians,  including teenagers and children. The places they targeted were busy and popular streets, tourist spots, markets or just about any place where there were many pedestrians. The deadly vehicle-ramming attacks hit popular and highly developed European cities which people would normally think were safe and well-secured. […]

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Video: Police investigate second car attack in Spain

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 […]

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