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Barcelona terror attack: Main suspect shot dead 'wearing explosive belt' in suburb of Subirats Barcelona attacker Younes Abouyaaqoub shot dead by police near the city after four-day manhunt
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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 man who killed 13 people in a crowded pedestrian area in Barcelona on Thursday has been shot and killed by police after a four-day man-hunt, Catalan police have confirmed.
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. Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan national, was gunned down in a final show-down in Subirats, just an hour’s drive from Las Ramblas in central Barcelona where the attack took place.
"We confirm that the man shot down in Subirats is Younes Abouyaaqoub, author of the terrorist attack in Barcelona," the force said on Twitter. Police, who moved in after a public tip-off of someone matching Abouyaaqoub’s description near a petrol station, now believe that the terrorist escaped the area by hijacking a car, killing its original driver with a knife and dumping his body. 
Catalan public radio said a bomb disposal robot had removed the possible explosives belt from the suspect. Spanish media reports that Abouyaaqoub was wearing a fake explosive belt and had shouted “Allahu Akbar” when confronted by officers in Subirats.
The radio reported the man's body was face down. Of the 11 other members of the 12-man Isis terror cell believed by police to be behind the attack in Barcelona, four are now in custody, five were shot and killed by officers after mounting a second attempted attack in Cambrils, and two were killed in an explosion at a house thought to be the group’s bomb factory. 
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 said there were “strong indications” that one of those killed at the factory was a former imam suspected of radicalising the group towards committing the atrocity.
Roser Venura said police told them to immediately leave the Ventura Soler cava vineyard, located between the towns of Sadurni d'Anoia and Subirats. Els Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan provincial police force leading the investigation into the attacks, said in a message posted on Monday:
She said "we heard a helicopter flying around and many police cars coming toward the gas station" near the property.  “The suspicious man in Subirats wears what looks like a belt of explosives attached to the body. This man has been shot down.”
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. In a follow-up, they added: “We confirm that the man shot down in Subirats is Younes Abouyaaqoub, author of the terrorist attack in Barcelona.”
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.  The killing of Abouyaaqoub so close to the site of the attacks comes after police internationalised their manhunt on Monday morning after fears the suspect may have escaped to France.
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 daughter of a Catalan vineyard owner said her father alerted police after they saw a car crossing their property at high speed, even though the vineyard was closed off. 
The attack ended in a shootout with police, who killed five attackers.  Roser Venura said police told them to immediately leave the Ventura Soler cava vineyard, located between the towns of Sadurni d'Anoia and Subirats. She said “we heard a helicopter flying around and many police cars coming toward the gas station” near the property.
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. Catalonia’s public broadcaster reported that a bomb disposal robot was used following the shooting to examine the apparently fake explosive belt worn by the attacker. Similar fakes were also reported to be worn at the attack in Cambrils. 
Isis claimed responsibility for both attacks.  CCTV images obtained by the Spanish newspaper El Pais appear to show Abouyaaqoub fleeting the scene of Thursday's attack through Barcelona's famous La Boqueria market, just off Las Ramblas and near the site of the attack before he apparently hijacked his getaway vehicle.
The vehicle was later ditched with the body of Pau Pérez, 34, from Vila Franca, who was found stabbed to death in the back seat – bringing the total number of victims of the group to 15.
Isis has claimed responsibility for both the attack in Barcelona and the follow-up attack in Cambrils in which one woman died, attributing it to “soldiers of the Islamic State” and saying it targeted “Crusaders” and “Jews”.
The terror group’s statement about the attacks was riddled with fictions, however, including claiming responsibility for another attack on a bar that did not actually occur.
The four people who remain in custody so far in connection with the attacks are three Moroccans and a citizen of Spain's North African enclave of Melilla.