Four suspects killed, one injured
A spokeswoman for the Catalan police has confirmed that officers shot dead four alleged perpetrators and injured one more during the counter-terror raid in Cambrils.
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Five terror suspects shot dead in Cambrils, while earlier explosion at house in Alcanar is also linked to Las Ramblas attack
Updated
Fri 18 Aug 2017 00.39 EDT
First published on Thu 17 Aug 2017 11.58 EDTKey events
- What we know so far
- Cambrils was second terrorist attack
- What we know about those killed and injured
- Fifth suspect shot by police has died
- Six civilians, one police officer, injured in Cambrils
- Barcelona, Cambrils, Alcanar linked, police say
- Four suspects killed, one injured
- Suspects killed in Cambrils
- Driver in Barcelona van attack still on the run
- Van driver escaped on foot following attack
- Three German citizens are reportedly among the dead
- A Belgian national is among the dead
- Islamic State claims responsibility
- Two people have been arrested
- What we know so far about the Las Ramblas terror attack
- Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel react to the attack
- Police release image of suspect
- Theresa May sends condolences to Spain
- Official death toll is now 13
- Catalan police confirm arrest
- Donald Trump condemns the terror attack
- Reports of arrest and identification of suspect
- One suspect arrested, according to Spanish broadcaster
- Police press conference: one dead and 32 injured
- Death toll at 13 - unconfirmed Spanish media reports
- Police confirm there are fatalities in the Barcelona van attack
- Spanish PM says 'priority is to attend to the injured'
- Reports of armed men entering a restaurant
- Collision in Barcelona being treated as terrorist attack
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Key events
- What we know so far
- Cambrils was second terrorist attack
- What we know about those killed and injured
- Fifth suspect shot by police has died
- Six civilians, one police officer, injured in Cambrils
- Barcelona, Cambrils, Alcanar linked, police say
- Four suspects killed, one injured
- Suspects killed in Cambrils
- Driver in Barcelona van attack still on the run
- Van driver escaped on foot following attack
- Three German citizens are reportedly among the dead
- A Belgian national is among the dead
- Islamic State claims responsibility
- Two people have been arrested
- What we know so far about the Las Ramblas terror attack
- Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel react to the attack
- Police release image of suspect
- Theresa May sends condolences to Spain
- Official death toll is now 13
- Catalan police confirm arrest
- Donald Trump condemns the terror attack
- Reports of arrest and identification of suspect
- One suspect arrested, according to Spanish broadcaster
- Police press conference: one dead and 32 injured
- Death toll at 13 - unconfirmed Spanish media reports
- Police confirm there are fatalities in the Barcelona van attack
- Spanish PM says 'priority is to attend to the injured'
- Reports of armed men entering a restaurant
- Collision in Barcelona being treated as terrorist attack
Video from the town of Cambrils appears to show the bodies of three people on the ground near the port area. It’s still not clear how many have been killed or injured in the police operation.
Emergency services say the situation in Cambrils is “exceptional” and ask people in the town to be patient. Some roads are closed, they say. People are asked to remain indoors.
Catalan police have now tweeted their earlier message in English.
They have still not yet confirmed how many “perpetrators” were involved or shot dead.
They say the shootings were linked to a suspected imminent terror attack in the town.
We work with the hypothesis that the incident of #Cambrils respond to a terrorist attack. We have shot down the perpetrators
— Mossos (@mossos) August 18, 2017
La Vanguardia is reporting that four suspected terrorists have been killed by police (though this number has not been officially confirmed). It also has video of what appears to be shots being fired in the town and people hiding on the beach.
If correct, that would make five people killed by police in the past few hours. Another person was shot after driving through a police checkpoint, but officials later said the dead person had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
Carles Puigdemont, the Catalan president, has thanked the police involved in the Cambrils operation “in these critical and tragic hours”.
The small coastal town of Cambrils, where police have killed an unknown number of suspects during a counter-terrorism raid after today’s Barcelona van attack, is a popular tourist destination for Spanish holidaymakers on Catalonia’s Costa Daurada, or Gold Coast.
A port city with a population of 33,000, Cambrils is around 120km from Barcelona. Its city website describes it as “the beginning and end” of a number of popular tourist routes, in an area already dense with attractions. The town is 12km from the international Reus airport, and 10km from PortAventura World, which is the most popular theme park in Spain, with 4 million annual visitors.
Known as the food capital of the Costa Daurada, Cambrils has two Michelin-starred restaurants and 7km of beaches around a central port.
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Police have not confirmed how many suspects were killed in Cambrils. Spanish media reports are saying four or five, but this has not been confirmed.
There are also reports that a number of police officers were injured during the operation.
It is still not clear how the Cambrils counter-terror raid is linked to the earlier attack in Barcelona.
Suspects killed in Cambrils
Police say they have killed “perpetrators” during the counter-terror raid in Cambrils.
Treballem amb la hipòtesi que els fets de Cambrils responen a un atac terrorista. Hem abatut els presumptes autors.
— Mossos (@mossos) August 17, 2017
Roger Rovira, a journalist with TV3, is in Vic, 80km away from Barcelona, where a second van – presumed to be a getaway vehicle – that had been hired at the same time from the Telefurgo rental company in Sabadell, was found.
Rovira says police officers are attempting to open the van, but have sent in robots to check it, presumably for explosives. Journalists and others have been warned to stay back.
Tedax @mossos obren furgoneta Vic. Robot i agents envolten vehicle @324cat pic.twitter.com/7hl4VGUEfL
— Roger Rovira (@RogRovi) August 17, 2017
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