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BARCELONA: ISIS claims attack which claimed 13 lives, injured 100 others

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BARCELONA: ISIS claims attack which claimed 13 lives, injured 100 others

Terror group, ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly car ramming incident which claimed the lives of no less than 13 victims and injured about a 100 others in the Las Ramblas tourists area of Barcelona.

Reports say the driver, who is now on the run ploughed a white van into a crowd at around 5pm local time (15:00 GMT) on Thursday in the bustling Las Ramblas area which is usually crowded by tourists.

Two other suspects connected to the attack have been arrested by Spanish police as cordons had been set up around the city in search of the prime suspect who is trying to escape arrest.

“The executors of the Barcelona attack were soldiers of the Islamic State,” ISIL’s Amaq outlet said on its Telegram messenger account, without naming those it claimed were behind the attack.

Read also: PARIS: Man ploughs car into diners, kills 12-yr-old, injures others

Three days ago, there was chaos in the small town of Sept-Sorts east of Paris, France when a man ploughed his car into an outdoor terrace of a pizzeria where people were eating.

According to a local prosecutor who announced he was ruling out terrorism and opening a murder investigation, the driver deliberately targeted the diners.

A similar incident happened five days ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA after an assailant rammed his car into a rally which turned rowdy involving white supremacists and counter-demonstrators.

 

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