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| Police in Spain have identified the remains of two bodies at the house where an explosion linked to the Barcelona terror attacks took place. | Police in Spain have identified the remains of two bodies at the house where an explosion linked to the Barcelona terror attacks took place. |
| The house, in the town in the town of Alcanar two hours drive south of Barcelona, exploded on Wednesday night hours before a terrorist in a van killed 13 people at La Rambla in the nearby city on Thursday. | |
| Catalan police, referred to locally as Los Mossos d'Esquadra, believe the house may have been accidentally blown up by the terror cell linked to the attacks in Catalonia this week while it was preparing explosives for a more sophisticated planned attack. | |
| The loss of the gas canister explosives – which could have been for building a truck bomb – and the deaths of two of the cell members there, may have prompted the more low-tech but deadly attack carried out on La Rambla with a van, investigators theorise. | |
| Los Mossos told reporters on Sunday that one of those killed in Wednesday's blast at the bomb factory was identified as an immam, who was possibly a spiritual ringleader of the group. | |
| More follows… | More follows… |