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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Deadly Barcelona Van Attack

Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the deadly attack that killed several people and left dozens injured.

UPDATED: 6:46 PM ET This is a developing story. Refresh for updates. A speeding white Fiat van plowed into pedestrians walking down Barcelona's popular La Rambla boulevard Thursday, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 100, in what Catalan police are calling a terror attack.

The Islamic State group, through its media arm Amaq news agency, claimed credit for the deadly attack. Police arrested two suspects in connection with the attack, identifying one as Driss Oukabir, a Moroccan man in his late 20s and another, still unnamed, as a Spanish national from Melilla. Oukabir reportedly rented the van from the town of Santa Perpetua de la Mogada, just north of the city. Neither of the two men arrested were driving the van, according to a senior police official. Police are actively searching for the driver.

The van mowed down dozens of people driving for about 500m before the suspects fled on foot, according to local media. Police say it was an attack "intended to kill as many people as possible." The Spanish newspaper El Pais, quoting unnamed police sources, reported the perpetrators of the crash were holed up in a bar on Tallers Street, near Las Ramblas. Police said rumors circulating on local media that a hostage situation had unfolded after the crash were unfounded.

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