Barcelona attack: Van driver may still be alive

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· Five suspected attackers killed in Cambrils

· Four arrested in connection with Barcelona attacks

· Manhunt for 22-year-old suspect van driver

· The van driver still on the loose

The driver in Thursday's van attack in Barcelona's iconic Las Ramblas tourist area may still be alive and on the run, said Spanish police.

Josep Lluis Trapero, police chief in Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia, said he could not confirm if the driver was one of the five attackers who was shot dead by the police after the second attack in Cambrils.

Forensic police officers search for clues near the area where a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, August 18, 2017. /Reuters Photo‍

A total of 14 people have been killed and over a hundred injured after two attacks took place in Spain in one day.

Among them, 13 people were killed after a van plowed into crowds in Las Ramblas tourist area on Thursday.

Later in the night, another attack was reported in Cambrils, when five people jumped out of a car and began attacking people at random. A woman was stabbed and later died at the hospital.

The police are now hunting for Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub, named by Spanish media as the suspected driver.

Terror cell behind twin attacks "dismantled"

While police is still hunting for a remaining suspect, French Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said Saturday that a terror cell behind the two attack has been "completely dismantled".

He also said that the cell was believed to have consisted of at least 12 young men, many of them Moroccan and some teenagers.

For now, five suspected attackers were killed in Cambrils.

Moussa Oukabir, the 17-year-old initially reported to be the driver of the van which rammed into pedestrians on Las Ramblas, was among the dead.

Said Aallaa, 18, Mohamed Hychami, 24, and two unnamed suspects were also among the attackers, who were killed

Handout images released by the Catalan regional police on August 18, 2017, show four suspects of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks. /AFP Photo

Police has also arrested four suspects, including Driss Oukabir, brother of Moussa, who turned himself in after reporting documents been stolen to rent vehicles used in the Las Ramblas attack.

Others included Sahal el-Karib, 34, Mohammed Aallaa, 27 and one unnamed suspects.

Meanwhile, police also identified other two suspects linked to the attacks, who were thought to have died in Wednesday night's blast in Alcanar when they tried to make explosives at a house.

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