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Spanish police gun down fugitive Barcelona attacker

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Spanish police gun down fugitive Barcelona attacker

Finally, 22-year-old Morrocan, Younes Abouyaaqoub, the prime suspect of the deadly car ramming incident which witnessed the killing of at least 14 people and injured more than 100 others in the bustling Las Ramblas area of Barcelona, has been killed by Spanish police.

According to police, the suspect who was wearing what appeared to be an explosives belt was gunned down after security operatives were alerted to the presence of a suspicious man near Subirats, west of Barcelona.

“The Catalan police have shot dead Younes Abouyaaqoub, driver of the van and direct perpetrator of the attack in Barcelona on Thursday causing the death of 14 people,” Carles Puigdemont, president of the Catalonia region, told reporters on Monday.

Read also: Spanish police intensify hunt for prime suspect of Barcelona attack

Police have been on the hunt of Abouyaaqoub who had been the focus of an extensive international manhunt after he escaped from the scene of the incident in the Las Ramblas area when he stabbed a driver to death and hijacked his car on Thursday night in his getaway.

In a related development, a shootout ensued late last Friday between police and suspected terrorists in the Catalonia region of Spain which witnessed the gunning down of five alleged militants by cops.

According to Catalan police, the alleged terrorists, who wore fake suicide vests and were armed with knives, were killed in the coastal town of Cambrils after striking pedestrians and police there with an Audi A3.

Four people, including a police officer, were injured in the vehicle-ramming attack and one civilian, a woman, was killed, according to Catalonia’s emergency services.

 

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