Spanish Police Searching for Van Driver in Barcelona Attack

Spanish Police Searching for Van Driver in Barcelona Attack
Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia talk to reporters at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau after visiting people injured after a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain August 19, 2017. Reuters/Sergio Perez
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BARCELONA/RIPOLL, Spain—Spanish police were on Saturday searching for the driver of a van that plowed into a crowd in Barcelona, killing 13 people, in one of two deadly attacks in Catalonia carried out by a network of suspected Islamist terrorists.

(For a graphic of the Barcelona attack, click here)

The van driver has yet to be identified, police in the northeastern Spanish region said late on Friday, but said it seemed increasingly unlikely that he was one of five suspects shot dead in a Catalan seaside resort.

People react at an impromptu memorial where a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, August 19, 2017. (Reuters/Sergio Perez)
People react at an impromptu memorial where a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, August 19, 2017. Reuters/Sergio Perez