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Barcelona (CNN) A wide-ranging anti-terror operation was underway in Spain on Friday after police killed ve
men wearing fake suicide belts in a town south of Barcelona, hours after a van mowed down dozens of people in
the heart of the city.

In the early hours of Friday morning, police intercepted a group of ve attackers in Cambrils, 120 kilometers (75
miles) south of Barcelona. All ve were shot dead.

Hours earlier, at about 5 p.m. on Thursday, a white van

careered into terried crowds on Las Ramblas, Barcelona's
feted thoroughfare, when the street was packed with locals
and tourists. At least 13 people were killed and more than 100
injured. The driver of the van ed on foot and was believed to

be still at large on Friday.

Joaquim Forn, the Catalan Interior Minister, said the two

attacks were linked to another, previously unreported incident
on Wednesday evening when one person was killed after an
explosion at a house in Alcanar, south of Barcelona. Police
said the victim was a Spanish national.

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Sombre crowds gathered Friday morning for a moment's
silence led by King Felipe, the Spanish head of state, at
Barcelona's Plaa de Catalunya -- near where the attack
began. After the silence, those present joined together in lengthy applause. "We are not afraid, we won't forget,"
they chanted.

King Felipe VI of Spain leads a moment of silence in Plaa de Catalunya on Friday.

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-- The Catalan Interior Minister said the incidents were linked either by common action or family connections. It
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-- Police were still on the scene in Cambrils after they shot ve terrorists dead. A number of controlled explosions
were carried out. Las Ramblas reopened Friday after police cleared the area.

-- People from at least 24 countries are among the injured, according to the Catalonia government, including
dozens of French citizens. A Belgian and two Italians have been conrmed as among the 13 dead. One of the
Italians was named by his employer as Bruno Gulotta.

-- Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy labeled the Barcelona attack "jihadi terrorism." Rajoy's government has
declared three days of mourning across Spain.

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Shootout in Cambrils
Details of the incident in Cambrils were still sketchy on Friday morning. According to a spokeswoman for
Catalonia's president, police engaged in a shootout with ve alleged terrorists after they drove an Audi A3 into
several pedestrians, fatally injuring one. It was unclear how the incident began.

Photos showed the black Audi, ipped upside down with its windows smashed out, being removed from the
scene.

Police ocers stand near an overturned car onto a platform at the spot where terrorists were
intercepted by police in Cambrils, Friday, Aug. 18.

Alex Folch, 28, told CNN he saw the immediate aftermath of the shootout from his holiday apartment on the fth
oor of the Club Nautic Cambrils, on the Consulat de Mar.

He said he saw three people lying on the ground surrounded by police, one with what appeared to be "a metallic
kind of belt" around the waist.

Folch said he could see snipers on the roof beside him and later heard controlled explosions conducted by police.

Carnage in Barcelona
The rst attack began at about 5 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, in one of Barcelona's most popular tourist districts.

A white van with blue markings drove into a packed crowd of locals and visitors enjoying an afternoon along Las
Ramblas, a predominantly pedestrian area full of cafes, bars and street performers.

"I saw people ying into the air and everyone was running into the shops on either side," witness Ali Shirazinia told
CNN. He saw the van drive past him.
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The van used in the Barcelona attack was abandoned at the scene, August 18, 2017.

Shirazinia said the driver appeared to be driving "in a zig-zag motion" as fast as he could, trying to hit as many
people as possible. "It was just a really, really horric scene of immediate carnage," he said.

More than a dozen people were killed, with the death toll expected to rise, while about 100 others were injured.

The ISIS media wing, Amaq, has said the Barcelona attackers were "soldiers of the Islamic State," but stopped
short of explicitly claiming responsibility for the attacks or providing evidence for their claims.

Police later shot dead the driver of a car at a checkpoint in Barcelona, but said he was not the perpetrator of the
attack on Las Ramblas.

Explosion in Alcanar

The debris of a house in the village of Alcanar, Catalonia, is seen Thursday after it collapsed due
to an explosion.
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The explosion in Alcanar on Wednesday night left seven people injured, one seriously, as well as causing the death
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A house collapsed completely under the force of the blast, a Catalan re department statement said. Authorities
have not yet conrmed what caused the explosion.
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One of the suspects arrested in connection with Thursday's Barcelona attack was detained in Alcanar, Catalan
police chief Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters.

Shock, fear in Barcelona

Las Ramblas reopened Friday morning but reminders of the previous day's horror were all around.

In some outdoor cafs, full glasses of beer and sangria sat out on tables, left behind after people scattered.
Overturned chairs and napkins were strewn on the street. Waiters were beginning to pick up the pieces as
restaurants opened.

Flowers, candles and messages of solidarity began to pile up at a makeshift shrine.

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Some shocked residents and tourists had come to the normally bustling avenue to pay their respects to the attack
victims.

Among them were Rania and her husband Ali, visiting from Israel. The pair, who did not give their last names, said
they were now considering cutting their trip short.

"Yesterday I told my husband that I was worried that wearing a hijab, that people here would think I agree with
what happened. But this doesn't represent me," Rania told CNN. "I told my husband that I am fearful that people
would attack Muslims here in Barcelona, in payback.

"The feeling of insecurity is terrible for all people."

Resident Federico Colmenarejo, 32, walked along Las Ramblas in a daze. His apartment overlooks the street --
and he said a phone call from his grandmother at the time of the attack had saved his life because it had stopped
him going out.

"Just to think how is it possible that I cross this street every day on my way to work. I can't believe it. In Barcelona
this never happens," he told CNN.

"Yesterday I was speaking with my friends here, during a street festival in Gracia, and we were thinking how easy it
would be to make an attack."

Victims from 24 countries

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The Catalan government said the Barcelona victims came from Spain, France, Germany, Holland, Argentina,
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Belgium's Foreign Ministry spokesman Jose de Pierpont said one Belgian was among those killed in the attack.
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Two Italians are also among those killed, Italian authorities
said Friday. Bruno Gulotta, who worked in sales and
marketing for Tom's Hardware Italia, was a much-loved
colleague with a partner and two young children, the
company said. He was on holiday in Barcelona with his family.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that 26

French nationals were injured, at least 11 seriously.

Thirteen German citizens were hurt, ''some seriously and still

ghting for their lives,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin
Schaefer told reporters in Berlin.

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support.

Two people from Taiwan were severely injured in the attack and are undergoing emergency treatment, China's
Ministry of Foreign Aairs said Friday. A Hong Kong citizen was "lightly" injured in the attack, Chinese state media
Xinhua reported.

There was no information on the identities of those injured or killed in Cambrils.

Pocket of radicalization
The Barcelona attack was Spain's deadliest terror outrage in 13 years -- in 2004, a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist
cell blew up Madrid commuter trains killing 191 people and injuring thousands.

It was the sixth time in 13 months a vehicle has been used by Islamist terrorist to cause mass casualties in a
European country, including major incidents in France, Germany, Britain and Sweden. Spain had escaped the
carnage until Thursday.

But Fernando Reinares, director of the Global Terrorism Programme at the Elcano Royal Institute, told CNN
Barcelona had long been a "prime scenario" for jihadi activities.

"It is the major radicalization pocket in the country. Barcelona is a big port city, close to France (and) has a long
history of jihadis. The rst jihadi ever in this country was arrested in Barcelona in 1995," Reinares said.

Since then, a quarter of all individuals arrested in Spain for jihadist terrorism have been residents of Barcelona,
according to Reinares.

CNN's Eliza Mackintosh reported from Barcelona, while Ben Westcott wrote from Hong Kong and Laura Smith-
Spark from London. CNN's Steve George, Vasco Cotovio, Hilary McGann, Claudia Rebaza, Laura Goehler, Livia
Borghese and Nanlin Fang contributed to this report.

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