Spain attacks said linked as fresh arrest made amid hunt for van driver Gas explosion in town of Alcanar Wednesday night also thought connected to deadly Barcelona attack and similar car-ramming in resort town of Cambrils
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BARCELONA, Spain — The Catalan government said an attack in the seaside resort town of Cambrils was linked to the vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people, as a new arrest was made amid a manhunt for the driver in the first attack.
The region’s Interior Minister Joaquin Forn told local radio RAC1 early Friday that the Cambrils attack “follows the same trail. There is a connection.”
He did not explain what connected the attacks. He confirmed the driver in the Barcelona attack remains at large.
Forn told Catalunya Radio later Friday that a third person was arrested in connection with the Barcelona van attack that killed at least 13 people.
The suspect was taken into custody in the northern Catalan town of Ripoll, he said.
The Cambrils attack involved five suspects who carried bomb belts. Police shot and killed the suspects and detonated their explosives in a controlled blast.
Media reports said a car crashed into a police vehicle and nearby civilians and police shot the attackers, one of whom was brandishing a knife.
Police did not immediately say how the attack was carried out.
A police officer and five civilians were injured; two were in serious condition.
Police are working on the theory that the Cambrils and Barcelona attacks are connected, as well as a Wednesday night explosion in the town of Alcanar in which one person was killed.
Mayor Cami Mendoza said the suspects centered their attack on the narrow path to Cambrils’s boardwalk.
Meanwhile, a manhunt is continuing for the driver in the Barcelona attack who drove his van onto a sidewalk along the popular Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 13 and injuring over 100.
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