Viable suicide vest found in rubble of Spain attackers' bomb factory

Vest went unnoticed when blast was initially dismissed as gas explosion, raising questions about Catalan police response

The terror cell that killed 15 people and injured more than 130 in north-east Spain last week had created a suicide vest packed with viable explosives and were in the process of making several more when a blast ripped through their bomb factory, police have said.

A search of the rubble at the factory in a disused house in Alcanar in southern Catalonia resulted in the discovery of the vest, which had gone unnoticed on Thursday last week when the blast was initially dismissed as an accidental gas explosion.