WATCH: Spanish police shoot at doomed terrorists in Cambrils

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THIS is the moment Spanish cops shot at a group of terrorists in Cambrils late last night.

Police killed the five men in order to stop another van attack.

They were all wearing explosive belts and were linked to the earlier Las Ramblas attack, police said.

Catalan regional head, Carles Puigdemont, later told said that the suicide belts were fake.

Catalan police also confirmed that a third suspect had been arrested in Ripoll following yesterday’s van attack.

They are also being linked to an explosion at a house in Alcanar on Wednesday night which left one dead.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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