Spain attacks linked, took long time to plan: police

The back-to-back vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort had been planned for a long time by an Islamic terrorist cell and could have been far deadlier had its base not been destroyed by an apparently accidental explosion this week, Spanish officials said on Friday.

PTI | AUGUST 19, 2017, 05:57 AM IST

BARCELONA

Police intensified their manhunt for an unknown number of suspects still on the loose today. They shot and killed five people early Friday who were wearing fake bomb belts as they attacked the seaside resort of Cambrils with a speeding car.
Police also arrested four others believed linked to the Cambrils attack and the carnage yesterday on a famous Barcelona promenade.
The number of victims stood at 13 dead and 120 wounded in Barcelona, and one dead and five wounded in Cambrils. Sixty- one people wounded by the van in Barcelona remained hospitalised today, with 17 of them in critical condition.
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