
On the night of Friday in the Catalan city of Cambrils south of Barcelona, five terrorists on the Audi minivan tried to crawl into pedestrians on the street, reports El Pais. The police shot the four attackers, another was wounded and died in the hospital.
Nevertheless, the terrorists managed to injure eight people, including several police officers. On Friday, one of the victims died from wounds, the Catalan police reported . Two wounded are in serious condition, two more remain in a hospital with slight wounds.
It is reported that the terrorists had a mortar belt. The police said that they had several controlled explosions.
The Spanish police connects the attack in Cambrils with a terrorist attack in Barcelona and with explosions in a residential building, which occurred the day before in the city of Alcanar.
On Friday afternoon, the police reported the arrest of the fourth suspect in involvement in the attacks. El Pais, citing police sources, reported that the organization of attacks suspect a terrorist cell of 12 people. Five of her members were killed in Cambrils. Four remain free. According to the publication, the 18-year-old Musa of Decision is considered a probable executor of the terrorist attack in Barcelona. He is the younger brother of Drissa, a resident of Ripol, whose documents were found in the van. The day before, he appeared to the police and announced the loss of documents. Presumably they were stolen by his brother, and Drissa himself was not in Barcelona at the time of the attack.
On Thursday, at about 17 hours on Ramble, the main pedestrian street of Barcelona, the white van Fiat drove at a high speed of about 600 meters, knocking down passers -by. As a result of the attack, 13 people were killed , 119 were injured. Among the victims are citizens of 34 states.
How many people were in the car is unknown. They managed to hide. It was originally reported that one or two terrorists took refuge in a cafe and, possibly, captured hostages. This information was not confirmed. Eyewitnesses heard the shooting in the Boker market located on the Ramble. The police did not give explanations about this.
The driver who, shortly after the tragedy on Rambl, broke through the police cordon in the city center and was later shot dead in the suburbs, was not involved in the terrorist attack, the investigation believes.
Even before the terrorist attack in Alcanar, as a result of two explosions that occurred in a difference of several hours, one person died and several were injured. First, the police called a gas leak as a preliminary version. However, it is now reported that in this house they could prepare explosives for terrorist attacks.
On Thursday, in the case of a terrorist attack in Barcelona, two suspects were detained. The detainees are directly related to the attack, the Catalan police said, but not one of them was in the van. One of the suspects was detained in the city of Riple, the other in Alcanar. On Friday morning, the police announced the detention in the rip of another suspect.
The Islamic State took responsibility for the terrorist attack in Barcelona.
Terrorist attacks with truck collisions have been taking place in Europe for the past two years. On July 14 of last year, in Nice, 31 -year -old Mukhamed Bukhale, a native of Tunisia, who had the citizenship of France and the citizenship of Morocco, during the festivities on the occasion of the day of the Bastille, he crashed into a crowd of celebrating and drove about 2 kilometers along it before the police shot him. 84 people died, 202 got into hospitals.
On December 19 last year, in the central part of Berlin, a heavy truck crashed into a crowd of visitors to the Christmas market . As a result of the attack, 11 people died, 48 were injured of various severity. Many of them are in serious condition. Another murdered, Polish trucker was found in the cab. The terrorist shot him with the theft of a truck. Contractor of the attack, 24-year-old native of Tunisia Anis Amri, on the night of December 23 was shot by police in a suburb of Milan.
A similar attack was committed in the center of London in the evening of June 3. On the London bridge, the van began to crush passers -by. Having reached the Boil market, three terrorists with knives jumped out of the car and arranged a massacre. A few minutes later, the police shot criminals. On the terrorists there were dummies of shahid belts, which did not have explosives inside. Seven people became victims of attacks, at least 36 were injured. As reported, the Islamic State took responsibility for the attack. The police identified the participants in the attack, these were immigrants from Morocco, Pakistan and Libya.
On June 19, in London, one person died, eight more suffered as a result of a truck hit a crowd near a mosque in the north of the city. The criminal, a 48-year-old local resident, acted out of hatred of Muslims.
On March 22, in London, 52-year-old terrorist Khalid Masud, moving by car, crashed into the crowd on the Westminster bridge . Four died, about 40 people were injured. Then Masud attacked a 48-year-old policeman with a knife, who was on duty on the territory adjacent to parliament. The terrorist was shot dead.
On April 7 in the afternoon, in the center of Stockholm, the truck drove into the crowd . Four people died. The police detained two suspects, one of them was a citizen of Uzbekistan, the identity of the second was not disclosed.
On August 9, the BMW car drove into the crowd of French troops in the suburbs of Paris Levalloa-Perr. As a result, six military were injured. The city authorities called the incident a planned act. The suspect in the collision was detained on the same day on the auto track in the north of the country, his name was not called.
On August 14, in the town of Sethor, near Paris, the driver made a deliberate collision on the open veranda of the pizzeria. As a result, a 13-year-old girl died, another 13 people were injured. The driver was immediately detained. The French police qualified what happened as an attempt to suicide.
Israel regularly collides with "car terror". Arab terrorists make collisions for military personnel and passers -by, ram cars.