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Barcelona incident: Man wearing explosive belt shot in suburb of Subirats Barcelona terror attack: Main suspect shot dead 'wearing explosive belt' in suburb of Subirats
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A man wearing what appeared to be an explosive belt has been shot and killed by police in Subirats, west of Barcelona, the Catalan police have said. Spanish police said they have shot dead a man believed to be the prime suspect in a van attack that killed 13 people and injured more than 130 in Barcelona.
The shooting comes amid a search for Younes Abouyaaqoub, a man believed to be the driver of a van used to kill 13 and injure more than 130 people in Barcelona on Thursday. Younes Abouyaaqoub was wearing what appeared to be an explosive belt when he was gunned down by police in Subirats, 25 miles from Barcelona, Catalonia's police force, Mossos, said.
"The suspicious man in Subirats [was wearing] what looks like a belt of explosives attached to the body. This man has been shot down," Catalonia's police force, Mossos, said on Twitter. "We confirm that the man shot down in Subirats is Younes Abouyaaqoub, author of the terrorist attack in Barcelona," the force said on Twitter.
Catalan public radio said a bomb disposal robot had removed the possible explosives belt from the suspect.Catalan public radio said a bomb disposal robot had removed the possible explosives belt from the suspect.
The radio reported the man's body was face down.The radio reported the man's body was face down.
Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia said Abouyaaqoub had been arrested in Sant Sadurni de Noya, west of Barcelona. The daughter of a Catalan vineyard owner told the AP her father alerted police after they saw a car crossing their property at high speed, even though the vineyard was closed off. 
Police declined to confirm the report, but said a man wearing a possible explosives belt had been shot in Subirats, which is 10km (6 miles) away from Sant Sadurni de Noya. Roser Venura said police told them to immediately leave the Ventura Soler cava vineyard, located between the towns of Sadurni d'Anoia and Subirats.
Abouyaaqoub, 22, has been the target of an international manhunt since the van attack, with authorities saying they now have evidence he drove the van that plowed down Barcelona's famed Las Ramblas promenade. She said "we heard a helicopter flying around and many police cars coming toward the gas station" near the property. 
He is then suspected of carjacking a man and stabbing him to death as he made his getaway, raising the death toll between the Barcelona attack and a related attack hours later to 15.  Abouyaaqoub, 22, has been the target of an international manhunt since the van attack, with authorities saying they now have evidence he drove the van that plowed down Barcelona's famed Las Ramblas promenade.
Another vehicle attack early on Friday, by other members of what Catalonia regional police have described as a 12-member extremist cell, killed one person and wounded several others in the coastal town of Cambrils. He is then suspected of carjacking a man and stabbing him to death as he made his getaway, raising the death toll between the Barcelona attack and a related attack hours later to 15. 
Another vehicle attack early on Friday, by other members of what Catalonia regional police have described as a 12-member extremist cell, killed one person and wounded several others in the coastal town of Cambrils.
The attack ended in a shootout with police, who killed five attackers. The attack ended in a shootout with police, who killed five attackers. 
Four people have been arrested so far in connection with the attacks: three Moroccans and a citizen of Spain's North African enclave of Melilla.
Isis claimed responsibility for both attacks. Isis claimed responsibility for both attacks. 
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