A man holds a Catalan flag as people gather to osberve a minute of silence at Placa de Catalunya, a day after a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas, in Barcelona, Spain August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Susana Vera
BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Catalonia's leaders said on Friday that a deadly van attack in their capital, Barcelona, would not affect plans to hold an October referendum in the northeastern region on breaking away from the rest of Spain.
Thirteen people were killed when a van ploughed into crowds in central Barcelona on Thursday afternoon. Another woman died on Friday from injuries she sustained in a attempted attack hours later in the Catalan resort of Cambrils, which police said they thwarted by shooting dead five suspects.
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