March 29, 2024
Barcelona: Third arrest; 5 suspects shot dead
BARCELONA - A third person was arrested Friday and five suspects were shot dead following a deadly van attack in Barcelona that killed more than a dozen people and injured at least 100, Spanish authorities said.

The regional president said at least one terrorist was "still out there," after police shot and killed the suspects in Cambrils, a beach town south of Barcelona.

Thousands of people including King Felipe VI gathered in Placa Cataluņa, the main square in Barcelona's center, for a minute of silence. The tribute ended with long applause and a spontaneous chant: "No tinc por" - Catalan for "I'm not afraid."

None of the three people arrested was the driver of the white van that plowed through a pedestrian walkway in Las Ramblas, a street popular with tourists in Barcelona, killing 13 people Thursday, police said. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.

Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia's regional president, said at least one militant remained at large. It wasn't immediately clear if he was referring to the van driver.

"We don't have information regarding the capacity to do more harm," Puigdemont told Onda Cero radio.

Catalonia Interior Minister Joaquim Forn told Catalunya Radio on Friday that the third suspect was arrested in the northern Catalan town of Ripoll. The other two were detained Thursday in Ripoll and in Alcanar, a town about 120 miles southwest of Barcelona.

Spanish police shot dead five people in Cambrils early Friday in an incident thought to be linked to the van attack. One person died in an explosion at a house in Alcanar on Wednesday night. That incident is also being linked.

Spanish authorities said the victims come from 24 countries, representing countries on every populated continent.

The U.S. State Department said one American died in the Barcelona attack, another American had minor injures.

Spanish officials are still working to identify victims, according to the State Department.

In Barcelona, 61 injured are still in the hospital, according to Spanish officials. Seventeen are in critical condition and 25 are considered to be in grave condition. In Tarragona, three of the four remaining hospitalized victims of the Cambrils attack are in grave condition, officials said in a statement.

Catalan police said forensic doctors worked through the night to perform autopsies on those killed in the attacks. (Source: USA Today)
Story Date: August 20, 2017
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