SPAIN TERROR ATTACK: 13 KILLED AND 100 INJURED IN BARCELONA AND CAMBRILS ATTACK

Eyewitness accounts from Cambrils report “many gunshots” as police killed five people who had used a car to mow down pedestrians.

Markel Artabe, a 20-year-old restaurant worker, said he was on the promenade and saw someone lying on the ground “with a gunshot in the head”.

Joan Marc Serra Salinas, a 21-year-old waiter, said he heard gunshots “and shouting. And more shouting. I jumped on to the beach and didn’t move.”

Cambrils was second terrorist attack

There was another terrorist attack in Cambrils before five suspects were shot dead, authorities have confirmed.

A spokesman for the regional government of Catalonia said:

The alleged terrorists were in an Audi A3 and apparently knocked down several people before coming across a police patrol and a shoot-out ensued.

Seven people, including one police officer, were injured. The officer’s injuries are not life-threatening but one other person is critically injured and another seriously. 

The five suspects were in an Audi A3 car, which was driven deliberately into pedestrians on the seafront in Cambrils on Thursday evening.

Police said some of the attackers were wearing what looked like explosive belts, adding that they were “working on the hypothesis that the terrorists shot dead in Cambrils could be linked to what happened in Barcelona”.

Officials have given little information beyond the fact that the five alleged perpetrators were killed; and that six bystanders were injured along with one police officer. The officer is lightly hurt, but one of the six is critically ill and another seriously wounded.

Other reports from the scene – as yet not confirmed – suggest some of the suspects drove a car, possibly an Audi, at pedestrians, causing the injuries.

The location of bodies pictured at the scene suggest the suspects were not in the car when they were shot by police.

There are also unverified reports that the suspects were wearing explosive belts. Police said a specialist bomb disposal team was investigating this.

A British man, Fitzroy Davis, witnessed the shooting of one of the suspects as he celebrated a night out with friends in Cambrils. One of his friends was injured by shrapnel during the incident.

He told the BBC:

We were sitting at the bar and these girls ran in and some people started running past us. One of our friends looked down the street and he says: ‘Run.’

The next thing is we see this guy coming running at us and someone shouted: ‘Call the police, call the police.’

He was running away at first then he turned round and he came running back up the street and he stopped and that is when the police car came and then they were shouting at him.

And then he was walking around in a circle and then they shot him.

He fell to the ground and he came back up and he stepped over the fence and he was smiling at them. And he came walking to the police and he was taunting them sort of thing, and they shot him again.

And that was it and then he went down.

Summary Report

Barcelona

• 13 people are confirmed to have died after a van was driven into pedestrians in Las Ramblas.
• Around 100 people were injured, at least 15 of them seriously.
• Two men have been arrested – including Driss Oukabir, who was initially suspected of being the driver– but police have now said neither man was behind the wheel. They remain in custody.

Cambrils

• Police shot dead four suspects in the coastal town, around 120kms from Barcelona. A fifth, who was injured and arrested, has since died.
• Six bystanders were wounded, one critically and another seriously, in what authorities said was a possible terror attack. Reports suggested a vehicle was driven at pedestrians in an echo of the Barcelona attack, but this has not been confirmed.
• A police officer was also lightly injured in the counter-terror operation.

Alcanar

One person was killed and at least one other wounded in an explosion that destroyed a house in Alcanar, around 200km from Barcelona and 90km from Cambrils,

The Eiffel Tower turned off its lights to pay tribute to the Barcelona attack

• The cause was initially thought to be a gas leak but police now say they are linking it to the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.