Man Wearing Suicide Belt Shot Dead In Subirats, Town Near Barcelona

Police hunting the van driver behind the Barcelona terror attack say they have shot dead a suspect wearing what appeared to be a suicide belt.

Local media said the dead man was Younes Abouyaaqoub, the 22-year-old Moroccan wanted for the Las Ramblas outrage.

He was cornered in Subirats, about 30 miles west of Barcelona, on Monday.
Thirteen people were killed in the attack in Barcelona on Thursday, including seven-year-old British boy Julian Cadman.

Joaquim Forn, head of home affairs in Catalonia’s regional government, said earlier on Monday that ‘everything indicates’ Abouyaaqoub was behind the wheel.

Police have revealed that he stole a car and killed its owner as he made his getaway after fleeing the carnage in Las Ramblas on foot.

He had been the only at-large member of the 12-strong terror cell behind the attacks in Barcelona on Thursday and in the seaside town of Cambrils early on Friday.

One person was killed in the Cambrils attack, in which terrorists wearing fake suicide belts drove an Audi A3 into pedestrians.

All five were shot by police, with four dying at the scene and the fifth later from his injuries.
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.