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Barcelona attack: Suspected van driver Younes Abouyaaqoub 'taken down' after 13 killed in Las Ramplas rampage Barcelona terror attack: Main suspect shot dead 'wearing explosive belt' in suburb of Subirats
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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. 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.
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 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.
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. "We confirm that the man shot down in Subirats is Younes Abouyaaqoub, author of the terrorist attack in Barcelona," the force said on Twitter.
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. Catalan public radio said a bomb disposal robot had removed the possible explosives belt from the suspect.
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. The radio reported the man's body was face down.
Joaquim Forn, head of home affairs in Catalonia's regional government, said earlier on Monday that "everything indicates" Abouyaaqoub was behind the wheel. 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. 
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.  Roser Venura said police told them to immediately leave the Ventura Soler cava vineyard, located between the towns of Sadurni d'Anoia and Subirats.
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. She said "we heard a helicopter flying around and many police cars coming toward the gas station" near the property. 
More follows… 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.
  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. 
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.