Police kill Barcelona attack fugitive
Updated | By AFP
Spanish police have killed a man who could be Younes Abouyaaqoub, the alleged fugitive driver of a van that mowed down crowds in Barcelona, a source close to the probe said.
"They have shot dead a suspect who could be the perpetrator of the attack," the source, who declined to be named, told AFP.
Police in Catalonia confirmed that a man wearing what appeared to be a suicide belt had been killed in Subirats, some 60 kilometres (37 miles) away from Barcelona, but did not identify him.
Abouyaaqoub, 22, is suspected of ploughing a van through throngs of tourists
He fled the scene on foot and stabbed to death a passer-by, hijacking his car to escape the city.
On Friday morning, other members of a terror cell he belonged to drove their car into pedestrians in the seaside town of Cambrils, with one of them stabbing a woman who later died.
All five occupants of the car were shot dead by police, with other members of the 12-man terror cell that organised the attacks detained or believed dead.
Abouyaaqoub was the only one still at large.
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