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Suspected driver in Barcelona attack shot and killed: Police
Source: ABC News
MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN and AICHA EL HAMMAR
Good Morning America August 21, 2017
Spanish authorities announced that Younes Abouyaaqoub, the suspected driver in a deadly vehicle attack in Barcelona that killed 13 people, has been shot and killed. He was wearing what looked like an explosive belt at the time, police said.
Earlier this morning, police formally named Abouyaaqoub as the driver of a van that plowed down Barcelona's crowded Las Ramblas promenade Thursday, killing 13 and injuring many more.
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Authorities say Abouyaaqoub escaped the scene on foot, then carjacked a vehicle, killing the driver, authorities said.
He then ran up against a roadblock south of Barcelona and abandoned the car in Sant Just Desvern, a town not far from the city, authorities said.
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Suspected driver in Barcelona attack shot and killed: Police (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2017
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still_one
(92,492 posts)1. good
murielm99
(30,780 posts)2. Twenty-two years old?
What a shame to throw his life away, and to take the lives of others while still so young.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)3. Slightly older than the College Republicans
Archae
(46,369 posts)4. Doesn't matter to fanatics.
Here in the US, the most fanatics are in right-wing ranks.
ISIS is a malignant growth, and can only be eliminated by killing the cells.
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)5. K and R