Explosive belts worn by Cambrils attackers were fake: official

MADRID - 18 August 2017: The explosive belts worn by attackers killed by police in the Catalan resort town of Cambrils were fake, the Spanish region's head Carles Puigdemont told local radio station RAC1 on Friday.

A suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13 people on Thursday, and police also said they had killed five attackers later that evening in Cambrils to thwart a separate attack using explosive belts.

Puigdemont said bomb experts had now confirmed the explosive belts were duds.