Spain Confirms Death of Barcelona Attack Perpetrator

Spain Confirms Death of Barcelona Attack Perpetrator
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22 August 2017
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The Police in the Spanish region of Ctalonia confirmed that the man killed today was Younes Abouyaaqoub, supposed perpetrator of the attack on Thursday in the city of Barcelona by a terrorist cell.

We confirmed that the person killed was Younes Abouyaaqoub,' said Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalonian police corps) on Twitter.

As different media outlets had previously announced, the main suspect, a 22-year Moroccan citizen was killed by the Mossos in the locality of Subirats, a sparsely populated area 50 kilometers from Barcelona.

The terrorist, fugitive since the killing of a group of people at Las Ramblas, in the city of Barcelona that resulted in the death of 15 people and would to more than 100, was shot to death by police agents while he was showing an explosive belt.

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