{"id":74064,"date":"2017-08-17T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T19:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74064"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T19:16:51","slug":"terror-in-las-ramblas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74064","title":{"rendered":"Terror in Las Ramblas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/08\/17\/injuries-reported-after-vehicle-hits-people-in-barcelona-plaza.html\">Fox News<\/a> reports that a Moroccan man, Driss Oukabir, ran a van through the crowd shopping in Las Ramblas district of Barcelona, Spain. As many as 13 people may have been killed, although Spanish police claim one was killed and several more injured.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Barcelona public broadcaster reported a man thought to be the driver of a van is held up in a bar that is surrounded by police. Barcelona&#8217;s Tv3: also reported the Spanish passport of a person of Moroccan origin was found at the scene of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The television station said police have surrounded a bar called Rey de Istanbul. Police haven&#8217;t confirmed they have a suspect cornered. Barcelona&#8217;s El Pais newspaper reported earlier that police were seeking more than one suspect in an unnamed bar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/truck-hits-pedestrians-busy-barcelona-street\/story?id=49272618\">ABC News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> At least 13 people are dead and more than 50 are injured after a van slammed into pedestrians in a busy tourist spot in Barcelona, Spain, this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place near Catalunya Square in Barcelona&#8217;s Las Ramblas district. One man is in custody, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are treating the crash as a terror attack. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/17\/europe\/barcelona-las-ramblas-van-hits-crowd\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We can confirm 13 dead and more than 50 injured,&#8221; Joaquim Forn, the Catalan interior minister, told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>He had earlier given initial figures of one dead and 32 injured but warned that the toll was &#8220;bound to rise.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> From <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/17\/wolf-blitzer-maybe-the-barcelona-attackers-are-charlottesville-copycats\/?utm_source=site-share\">Daily Caller<\/a>; Wolf Blitzer links Barcelona to Charlottesville;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer wondered on air whether the suspected terrorist attack on Thursday in Barcelona, Spain, was related to the violence that broke out last weekend at a white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Va\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cYeah, there will be questions about copycats,\u201d Blitzer said during his coverage of the incident. \u201cThere will be questions if what happened in Barcelona was at all \u2014 at all \u2014 a copycat version of what happened in Charlottesville, Va., even though there may be different characters, different political ambitions. They used the same killing device: A vehicle going at high speed into a group, a large group of pedestrians.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that a Moroccan man, Driss Oukabir, ran a van through the crowd shopping &hellip; <a title=\"Terror in Las Ramblas\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74064\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terror in Las Ramblas<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}