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Article snippet: A third person has been detained in connection with a night of terror in Spain, in which the driver of a van killed at least 13 people in Barcelona and several more were injured in a car-ramming attack in a seaside resort town, the Catalan authorities said on Friday. The third suspect, who was detained in Ripoll, about 65 miles north of Barcelona, has not been identified, and it was not clear if the arrest was in connection with the attack in Barcelona, the second assault in the seaside town of Cambrils, or both. The Spanish authorities said the dead and wounded came from at least 18 countries, and the police were chasing leads in Barcelona and cities to the north and south in a fast-moving investigation. The attacks were the worst in Spain in more than a decade, and they added the country to the list of European nations — including Belgium, Britain, France and Germany — that have been hit by a wave of terrorist assaults claimed by the Islamic State militant group in recent years. The attack in Cambrils, about 70 miles southwest of Barcelona, was halted by the police only after the driver of an Audi A3 rammed his vehicle into a group of pedestrians, the Catalan authorities said, according to news accounts. Seven people were injured. That second attack took place just hours after someone drove a van into a crowd of people on a pedestrianized stretch of Las Ramblas, a boulevard in the heart of Barcelona that is often filled with tourists. Five assailants in the car... Link to the full article to read more