Spanish police have killed five people in an operation to stop what they say was a second attempted terrorist attack following Thursday evening’s van attack on pedestrians in Barcelona’s bustling tourist district of Las Ramblas which killed 13 people and left dozens wounded.
Friday morning’s operation took place in Cambrils, south-west of Barcelona. Six bystanders and one officer were injured, in what authorities said was a possible terror attack. The police also said they were going to conduct “several controlled explosions” in Cambrils.
Joaquim Forn, of the Catalan interior ministry, said that more than 100 people had been injured, 15 of them seriously. Two people had been detained.