Barcelona and Cambrils attacks: Police name suspected van driver after five terrorists shot dead - latest news

Five terrorists wearing fake suicide belts have been shot dead by police after ramming civilians with a car in a Spanish seaside town in a second vehicle attack , as police named a man being hunted as the suspected Barcelona van driver.
One woman died and six other people, including a police officer, were injured in Cambrils - hours after a rampaging van driver left 13 people dead and more than 100 wounded around 70 miles away in Barcelona.
Police have named the
suspected Barcelona van driver they are hunting as 18-year-old Moussa Oukabir. He is the brother of Driss Oukabir, a 28-year-old Moroccan who is alleged to have rented the vehicle.
Investigators revealed that a 12-strong terror cell thought to have been behind the two Spanish attacks is believed to have been planning an atrocity with gas canisters.
In Cambrils, holidaymakers ran for their lives as gunfire broke out close to the coastal town's beachfront promenade early on Friday. A British tourist told how families and residents were ordered to take cover as bullets tore through the air.
The attackers' vehicle overturned and the men were fired upon by police when they got out. One was reportedly brandishing a knife. Police said the attackers had been wearing explosive belts, which experts later concluded were fake.
Investigators are working on the theory that the attacks in Cambrils and Barcelona are linked to a gas explosion at a house in the town of Alcanar on Wednesday that killed one person.
Police officers by the upturned car used to target civilians in a second terrorist attack in Cambrils early on Friday CREDIT: LLUIS GENE/AFP
A major manhunt for the driver of the van that mowed down holidaymakers and locals on Las Ramblas - a popular tourist road in Barcelona - is continuing after he fled unarmed.
Three people have so far been arrested over the attack, including Driss Oukabir , the elder brother of van driver suspect Moussa Oukabir.
Driss Oukabir who is believed to have rented the van used in the Barcelona attack
The second arrested man, a Spanish national from Melilla, has not been named. The third person, who was arrested in the Spanish city of Ripoll on Friday morning, is believed to be an associate of Oukabir.
The third arrested man could have been the driver of a car that drove into a police checkpoint on Thursday night, investigators believe.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has claimed responsibility for the attack , the deadliest on Spanish soil since more than 190 people died in the Madrid train bombs in 2004. Stay with us for the latest updates.