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| A third person has been detained in connection with a night of terror in Spain, in which the driver of a van killed at least 13 people in Barcelona and several more were injured in a car-ramming attack in a seaside resort town, the Catalan authorities said on Friday. | A third person has been detained in connection with a night of terror in Spain, in which the driver of a van killed at least 13 people in Barcelona and several more were injured in a car-ramming attack in a seaside resort town, the Catalan authorities said on Friday. |
| The third suspect, who was detained in Ripoll, about 65 miles north of Barcelona, has not been identified, and it was not clear if the arrest was in connection with the attack in Barcelona, the second assault in the seaside town of Cambrils, or both. | |
| The attacks were the worst in Spain in more than a decade, and they added the country to the list of European nations, including Belgium, Britain, France and Germany, that have been hit by a wave of terrorist assaults claimed by the Islamic State militant group in recent years. | |
| The attack in Cambrils, about 70 miles southwest of Barcelona, was halted by the police only after the driver of an Audi A3 rammed his vehicle into a group of pedestrians, the Catalan authorities said. Seven people were injured. | The attack in Cambrils, about 70 miles southwest of Barcelona, was halted by the police only after the driver of an Audi A3 rammed his vehicle into a group of pedestrians, the Catalan authorities said. Seven people were injured. |
| That second attack took place just hours after someone drove a van into a crowd of people on a pedestrianized stretch of Las Ramblas, a boulevard in the heart of Barcelona that is often filled with tourists. | That second attack took place just hours after someone drove a van into a crowd of people on a pedestrianized stretch of Las Ramblas, a boulevard in the heart of Barcelona that is often filled with tourists. |
| Five assailants in the car in Cambrils were shot and killed, the police said, and they appeared to be wearing explosive vests, although the Catalan police said on Friday that the explosives were fake. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, claimed responsibility for the attack in Barcelona, but there has been no such claim for the events in Cambrils. | |
| “The alleged terrorists were in an Audi A3 and apparently knocked down several people before coming across a police patrol and a shootout ensued,” said a spokesman for the regional government of Catalonia, Agence France-Presse reported. | “The alleged terrorists were in an Audi A3 and apparently knocked down several people before coming across a police patrol and a shootout ensued,” said a spokesman for the regional government of Catalonia, Agence France-Presse reported. |
| At least 80 people were injured in the attack in Barcelona. Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, said in a statement that 26 French were among the wounded, with 11 in serious condition. He also said that he would travel to Barcelona on Friday to “visit the French victims of this cowardly act and show France’s support to the Spanish people and authorities.” | At least 80 people were injured in the attack in Barcelona. Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, said in a statement that 26 French were among the wounded, with 11 in serious condition. He also said that he would travel to Barcelona on Friday to “visit the French victims of this cowardly act and show France’s support to the Spanish people and authorities.” |
| According to news reports, the authorities in Australia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong and Taiwan said they had citizens among the dead, wounded or missing. | |
| Thursday night, a Spaniard and a Moroccan were taken into custody in connection with the Barcelona attack. The police said they were still looking for the driver of the van. | |
| The assaults were the latest in Europe, claimed by Islamic extremists, in which assailants used vehicles to kill people in countries fighting the Islamic State. | The assaults were the latest in Europe, claimed by Islamic extremists, in which assailants used vehicles to kill people in countries fighting the Islamic State. |
| The police are working on the hypothesis that the five assailants killed in Cambrils could be connected to the events in Barcelona, Agence France-Presse reported, and The Associated Press reported that the Catalan interior minister, Joaquim Forn, said the events were linked. | |
| Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany expressed her condolences to the Spanish government and “close solidarity” with the people of Spain “in these difficult hours,” her spokesman said. | |
| Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain declared three days of mourning, and a moment of silence was planned across the country at noon on Friday. | |
| Las Ramblas was still closed to traffic early Friday, and trains and buses were not stopping in the area. The police said that access to the area around Las Ramblas and Plaza de Cataluña would be restricted to pedestrians and that security checks would be conducted, and they warned people not to wear large backpacks or carry large bags. |