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Spain’s king leads mourning at a mass for Barcelona attack victims

By Reuters
20 August 2017   |   4:00 pm
Spain's King Felipe and Queen Letizia on Sunday joined Spanish and Portuguese political leaders at architect Antoni Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia church, for a mass in honour of the victims of the Barcelona van attack at Las Ramblas.

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