Police have killed the main suspecte in the Barcelona attack, who they believe killed 13 people by driving a van into crowds on Las Ramblas.
Officers shot dead Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, around 4 p.m. local time on Monday afternoon in the Spanish town of Subirats, 20 miles west of Barcelona.
Earlier that day the Mossos d’Esquadra police force named Abouyaaqoub as their prime suspect, and said he was the man behind the wheel in Thursday’s attack.
He was described as “dangerous” and police warned that he could be armed.
Officers said Abouyaaqoub appeared to be wearing an explosive belt when he was killed. A later police tweet said bomb experts were using a robot to dispose of the device.
They later confirmed his identity:
We confirm that the man shot down in #subirats is Younes Abouyaaqoub, author of the terrorist attack in #barcelona
— Mossos (@mossos) August 21, 2017
Abouyaaqoub is the sixth man killed in the Barcelona counter-terror operation. Five were killed by police in Cambrils on Thursday night. They were wearing devices which looked like suicide vest, but turned out to be fake.
See also: Here's what we know about the victims of the Spanish terror attacks
Sky News in the UK broadcast pictures from near the scene of the shooting, a remote-looking road which had been blocked off by a police van.
