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Spain attacks: Police investigate suspected bomb factory

By Maame Aba Afful
Police investigate suspected bomb factory
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Police investigating two terror attacks in Spain are probing the wreckage of a suspected bomb factory, as they continue to hunt for a fugitive suspect named as Younes Abouyaaqoub.

The flattened ruins of a house in the village of Alcanar have become the centre of a massive police investigation into a terror cell suspected of using the house to make bombs.

When an explosion destroyed the house Wednesday night, killing one person and seriously injuring another -- now arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attacks -- it set in train a series of events resulting in the deaths of 13 people in Barcelona and one more in the town of Cambrils.

A Catalan police spokesman said Abouyaaqoub, a suspect in Thursday's deadly attack in Barcelona, remains on the run.

Handout images of four suspects were released by police on Friday.

                                                               

He also confirmed the names of three of the five suspected terrorists who were killed in a confrontation with police in Cambrils hours after the attack in Barcelona: Moussa Oukabir, Said Aallaa and Mohamed Hychami. Spanish media report that Abouyaaqoub is a 22-year-old Moroccan national.

A massive manhunt has been underway since a van plowed into pedestrians on a bustling thoroughfare in Barcelona on Thursday afternoon, killing 13 and injuring 120.

Hours later, a group of five attackers drove into pedestrians in the town of Cambrils, killing one and injuring six, in the early hours of Friday. Police shot dead the five attackers, who they said were armed with knives, axes and fake explosive belts.

Read also: Barcelona and Cambrils attack- Suspect to be hunted down

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