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Police have shot dead five jihadists in a Spanish beach resort to stop an attempted vehicle attack just hours after a white van ploughed into a crowd of people in Barcelona Howard Wilson Jersey , killing 13 people and injuring dozens more.


Five terrorists wearing suicide belts rammed civilians with a car in a Spanish seaside town of Cambrils, 100km south of Barcelona, before being shot dead by police in the second attack to hit the country.


Seven people including a police officer were injured during the incident in Cambrils, hours after a rampaging van driver left 13 people dead and over 100 wounded in Barcelona’s bustlling Las Ramblas tourist area.


The driver of the Barcelona attack is still at large.


Officials believe the two attacks are linked to each other as well as with an explosion at a house on Wednesday evening in the town of Alcanar that left one person dead. Two people Antonio Callaway Jersey , a man from Morocco and another from Spain’s north African enclave of Melilla, have been detained.


Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack in Las Ramblas.


Terror in Barcelona tourist spot


Shortly after 5pm local time on Thursday a white Fiat van tore through Las Ramblas, a major tourist attraction packed with families and holidaymakers, in a horror described as “jihad terrorism” by the country’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy.


The van drove on to the pavement Chad Thomas Jersey , swerving among pedestrians in a crowded area, and was “clearly a terror attack intended to kill as many people as possible”, senior police official Josep Lluis Trapero said.


Images and video posted on social media showed bodies strewn across the pavement. Some looked like children.


It is the deadliest on Spanish soil since more than 190 people died in the Madrid train bombs in 2004.

Police and emergency services attend to injured persons at the scene REUTERS Van attack suspect A plain clothed police officer secures the area in Barcelona. (AP PhotoGiannis Papanikos) 13 die in van attack

According to the Catalan regional government citizens of some 24 countries were among those killed and injured Austin Corbett Jersey , with one Belgian national confirmed to have died.


Reports say that a Spanish passport of a man with a Moroccan name was found inside the van.


Authorities have warned that the death-toll may rise, with 15 people receiving treatment for serious injuries.


Two suspects, a Spanish national from Melilla and a Moroccan, were arrested and taken into custody in the wake of the attack.


Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack via their Amaq News Agency. Isis frequently declares involvement in incidents across the world so their claims should be treated with caution Larry Ogunjobi Jersey , though Catalan Police have confirmed the incident is a terror attack.


Spain has several hundred soldiers in Iraq providing training to local forces in the fight against Isis, but they are not involved in ground operations.


Spanish media have published a picture of a man police sources say rented the van.Authorities have named him as Driss Oukabir, a 28-year-old born in Morocco who lives in Catalunya.


Security sources told El Pais that Oukabir had recently visited Morocco and arrived back in Barcelona earlier this week.


Las Ramblas is a popular shopping street in the centre of Barcelona and one of the city’s most popular tourist destinations.


However, in recent weeks David Njoku Jersey , threatening graffiti against tourists has appeared in Barcelona, which draws at least 11 million visitors a year.


In one video released under the slogan “tourism kills neighbourhoods”, several hooded individuals stopped a tourist bus in Barcelona, slashed the tyres and spray-painted the windscreen.


Police stop attack in Cambrils


At about 2am local time on Thursday morning Jabrill Peppers Jersey , five terrorists wearing suicide belts rammed civilians with a car in a Spanish seaside town before being shot dead by police.


Bystanders ran for their lives as a gunfire broke out close to the coastal town’s beachfront promenade.


Residents of the popular tourist spot were ordered to take cover indoors as bullets tore through the air and footage later showed several lifeless bodies on the ground.


In the wake of the carnage several controlled blasts were carried out in the area, with police later saying the attackers had been wearing explosive belts.


Mossos, Catalonia’s police force, said four of the attackers were shot dead at the scene and later confirmed a fifth had died of his injuries.


Of the six civilians caught up in the attack two were said to be in a serious condition.


Explosion in Alcanar


Senior police officials said the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils are linked to an explosion at a nearby home the previous day in which one person was killed. Residents of the house were preparing explosives Myles Garrett Jersey , a Catalan police source said.


What eyewitnesses said


Steve Garrett was in a market near Las Ramblas and sheltered in a bakery with several others after streams of people ran inside.


One member of the group who took refuge with him said she had heard gunshots after the incident.


Mr Garrett told the BBC: “A very large number of people ran into the market area in a big kind of way, lots of screaming, lots of shouting.


“The security guards immediately responded. We ran into the bakery with four or five other people and ran straight upstairs and hunkered down whilst an enormous wave of people went through the market.


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