Posted on 08/17/17
| News Source: Arutz-7
Spanish police killed four terror suspects in Cambrils. It is unclear if they were connected to the Barcelona van attack.
Police in Spain announced overnight Thursday they had killed several people in an anti-terror operation in Cambrils, south of Barcelona, Fox News reports.
The report cited state-owned broadcaster RTVE as having said police killed four people and injured another, after police suspected they were planning a second terror attack.
It was not immediately clear how or if the suspects killed in Cambrils were connected to an earlier van attack in Barcelona.
At least 13 people were killed and 100 injured in the earlier attack, which took place when a van drove into a crowd on the busy Las Ramblas avenue.
Authorities are on the hunt for the van driver, who they believe escaped on foot.
Two men who were arrested after the Barcelona attack, but police said that while they were connected to the incident, neither was the driver of the vehicle.
One of the two men arrested was Moroccan and the other was from the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa, reported Reuters. They were arrested in two different towns in the region of Catalonia, Ripoll and Alcanar.
The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group claimed responsibility for the Barcelona attack through its propaganda arm, the Amaq news agency.