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The Latest: Young Australian boy missing after van attack

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say o...

Spain suspect admits terror cell planned bigger attack

Mohamed Houli Chemlal , Driss Oukabir, Salah El Karib and Mohamed Aallaa, are all suspected of involvement in the Barcelona terror cell " height="125" src="http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAqxKR1.img?h=125&w=300&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=144&y=155" width="300" /> © Provided by AFP Mohamed Houli Chemlal , Driss Oukabir, Salah El Karib and Mohamed Aallaa, are all suspected of involvement in the Barcelona terror cell An alleged member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge Tuesday that he and other suspects had planned a bigger attack, a judicial source said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal , 21, was the first of four surviving suspects to be questioned in Madrid's National Court , which deals with terror-related cases, over the attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort that claimed 15 lives and wounded more than 100 people. The Spaniard was injured in an accidental exp...

The Latest: Missing imam in Spain thought to be key figure

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:40 p.m. A police official in Spain says an imam whose home was searched as part of the investigation into two deadly vehicle attacks is believed to be the radicalizing force behind the cell of young men — and is now thought to have died in an explosion linked to the attacks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal details of the new suspicions surrounding imam Abdelbaki Es Satty . Officials in Es Satty’s former mosque in the northern town of Ripoll, which he left abruptly in June, on Saturday denounced the attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside town . The mosque president , Ali Yassine, said Es Satty told him he wanted to return to Morocco for three months and hasn’t seen him since. The police official says Es Satty is believed to have died in an explosion Wednesday that destroyed a house south of Barcelona. The day after an attack killed 13 people in Las Ramblas in Barcelona, locals try ...