Barcelona: Spanish police on Friday said they had shot dead “four suspected terrorists” and left another injured early on Friday in Cambrils, a city south of Barcelona where a van mowed into pedestrians, killing 13 people.
The regional government of Catalonia, where both Barcelona and Cambrils are located, also confirmed the incident, which police had earlier qualified as a “possible terrorist attack.”
The confrontation came about eight hours after a van swerved through a pedestrian walkway in a popular destination in downtown Barcelona, injuring nearly 100 people.
The regional police said on Twitter early Friday that troopers fired on the five suspects in Cambrils, a seaside town about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Barcelona.
The regional police said in another tweet that they are investigating whether the Cambrils suspects were wearing explosive vests. Its officers planned to carry out several controlled explosions.
The force says it is working on the theory that the Cambrils suspects were linked to the Barcelona attack, as well as to a Wednesday night explosion in the town of Alcanar in which one person was killed.
