A FURTHER Terror attack hit Spain in the early hours of Friday morning in the Spanish costal town of Cambrils – around 125 miles from Barcelona.
At around 0120 Local time, a van was again driven at high speed at pedestrians and local media is reporting that 7 people have been injured with 2 being in critical condition.
Following the attack in Barcelona, Police warned local residents in Cambrils to stay indoors whilst they dealt with an operation ‘related to the Barcelona atrocity’.
All five of the attackers have reportedly been shot and killed and by 0200 Spanish authorities were said to have got the situation under control.
Authorities have said that the five attackers were wearing suicide vests.
One person was also killed and at least one other seriously wounded in an explosion that destroyed a house in Alcanar, around 125 miles from Barcelona and 55 miles from Cambrils.
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.
There is also a manhunt underway for the driver of the van in Barcelona, earlier reports said that Driss Oukabir was the driver – but it has been confirmed by Catalonian authorities that this man is NOT the attacker and had only rented the van.
On Oukabir’s Facebook page it stated his favorite show was Prison Break and his favorite book was ‘The Quran’.
He is said to have arrived in Barcelona on August 13th.
18 nationalities are said to be victims of the attack in Barcelona and the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy has called the attack a ‘Jihadist Attack’.