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ISIS Attacks Spain: Driver Plows Truck Into Crowd in Barcelona

ISIS Attacks Spain: Driver Plows Truck Into Crowd in Barcelona

Reports have emerged of armed men holding up a restaurant.
Posted by Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 12:13pm
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Barcelona police declared the attack on La Rambla street in Barcelona, Spain, a terrorist attack. ISIS has taken responsibility for the attack.

At 5PM local time, a driver plowed a truck through the busy tourist street. As of 11:50AM ET, two have died. A man fled on foot and reports have come that two armed men have entered a restaurant.

The Attack

ISIS has officially taken responsibility for the attack:

The police have released a photo of the suspect:

We do not know if this is the same guy that the police arrested.

At 5PM local time, a man drove a truck into a crowd on the the popular tourist street. Catherine Herridge at Fox News reported that the men used a rental truck, which is what others have used in truck attacks across Europe.

https://twitter.com/DianneG/status/898204406419685376

Avi Mayer, the spokesman for Jewish Agency, noted that the attack occurred near a Kosher restaurant:

Fox News reported:

“It was real chaos, people started running, screaming. There was a loud bang,” eyewitness Ethan Spibey told Sky News.

Catalan emergency services said people should not go to the area around Placa Catalunya, according to Reuters.

Witnesses told newspaper El Pais the driver ran over several people on the walk way, and there were people lying on the ground injuures.

One witness said the van “has trampled people while crossing the traffic light.”

Other witnesses have spoken out:

Barcelona resident Keith Fleming says he was watching television in his building on a side street just off Las Ramblas when he heard a noise and went out to the balcony to investigate.

He says he saw “women and children just running and they looked terrified.” Fleming heard a bang, possibly from someone rolling down a store shutter, as more people raced by.

Aftermath

The Associated Press tweeted the police have arrested a suspect:

Police confirmed 32 injured. 10 seriously. Officials have said that the attack killed 13 people.

Police found a passport in a van:

Second Attack?

I’m seeing reports on social media of two men holding up a restaurant, but cannot find much info on it.

The police are still in a standoff at a nearby Turkish restaurant:

https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/898210323123118081

Now major media outlets report that the perpetrators have locked themselves in a bar:

My friend Billy Newton has friends nearby:

Reports have come out that police are looking for a possible second van:

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Comments

locomotivebreath1901 | August 17, 2017 at 1:05 pm

MSM to blame the murderous event in Charlottesville for this horrific vehicle attack in 5, 4, 3,…

I’m sorry. I’ll dial it back. I hope this ends soon without any more deaths.

Exiliado | August 17, 2017 at 1:18 pm

Time to pass van control laws.

gonzotx | August 17, 2017 at 3:04 pm

and yet we who fight against a Muslim invasion are racist pigs

C. Lashown | August 17, 2017 at 3:24 pm

It appears as if the political class and the cultural elite don’t really need to worry about terrorist attacks upon themselves. It’s the lower classes who are caught in these terrorist entrapment’s, this vice between social submission and terror – and the police are merely a ‘reaction force’, unable to stop the slaughter. How does a ‘reaction force’ protect the victim of terror, other than to pick up the bloody pieces?

My opinion is that the elite and political class are as much a problem as the terrorists, suppressing any type of violent response to the terrorists or their supporters. More migrants, more refugees…more, more, more. This is Merkel’s demand, and she’s an expert at twisting arms. They wanted a unified Europe and now they have it, just like the dog who catches the squirrel and instantly wonders how to get rid of that set of teeth and claws punishing him.

Pelosi Schmelosi | August 17, 2017 at 3:51 pm

A couple of days ago the Left-Tarded media was all about “identifying” hate groups.
Apparently that’s not the case today.
I love the way they can just twist on a dime, don’t you?

mailman | August 17, 2017 at 3:57 pm

God damn nazeeees!!

Ragspierre | August 17, 2017 at 4:07 pm

Reports of 12 dead and 80 injured.

healthguyfsu | August 17, 2017 at 4:13 pm

EU did them a lot of good

Anchovy | August 17, 2017 at 4:20 pm

Not to worry… even as I write this there are many well dressed people in Brussels that are solving all of Europe’s problems and making themselves rich. Talk about multi-tasking.

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