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| Barcelona attack: Suspected van driver Younes Abouyaaqoub 'taken down' after 13 killed in Las Ramplas rampage | |
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| The man believed to be the van driver who killed dozens of people and wounded over 100 more in a terror attack in Barcelona has reportedly been "taken down", Spanish media reports. | |
| Younes Abouyaaqoub,22, is believed to be one of the last living members of the terror cell which carried out twin attacks in Barcelona and the seaside town of Cambrils earlier this month. | Younes Abouyaaqoub,22, is believed to be one of the last living members of the terror cell which carried out twin attacks in Barcelona and the seaside town of Cambrils earlier this month. |
| Reports of the arrest, made by Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, came amid an incident in the town of Subirats in the west of Catalonia where a man wearing a suicide belt was reportedly shot dead. | |
| At least 13 people, including seven-year-old British boy Julian Cadman were killed in the Barcelona van attack and another woman died during a shot out between police and five gunmen at a restaurant in Cambrils the following evening. | |
| The death toll from the attacks rose to 15 on Monday when police revealed that the fugitive stole a car and killed its owner as he made his getaway from the Barcelona attack scene. | |
| Joaquim Forn, head of home affairs in Catalonia's regional government, said earlier on Monday that "everything indicates" Abouyaaqoub was behind the wheel. | |
| Catalan police were previously considering whether the van driver had been killed during the shoot out in Cambrils where five terrorists were shot dead by police. | |
| Two others, including the Moroccan imam believed to have radicalised the cell, were killed in an explosion at a house in the town of Alcanar, two hours south of Barcelona. | |
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