(Mail on Sunday-UK) Nick Craven - A 12-member Islamic State cell intended to target hundreds of innocent victims with truck bombings at the Sagrada Familia basilica - Barcelona's most famous landmark - and the city docks, as well as the Las Ramblas pedestrian boulevard. But an accidental blast on Wednesday destroyed their bomb factory in Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona. Investigators sifting through the rubble in Alcanar found traces of TATP, which was used in the Tube bombings in London in July 2005 and the May attack this year in Manchester. It was also used in the November 2015 Paris atrocity and the March 2016 Brussels bombings.
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