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Younes Abouyaaqoub: Barcelona attack driver still at large; identity of suspect confirmed

By Joseph Wilson and Aritz Parra - Associated Press

An image of suspect Younes Abouyaaqoub, released by the Spanish Interior Ministry on Monday Aug. 21, 2017. Moroccan suspect Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, is the final target of a manhunt that has been ongoing since the attacks, Catalan interior minister Joaquim Forn told Catalunya Radio that &quot;everything indicates&quot; that Abouyaaqoub was the driver of the van that plowed down Barcelona's emblematic Las Ramblas promenade on Thursday, killing 13 pedestrians and injuring more than 120 others. (Spanish Interior Ministry via AP)

Spain: Police shoot man wearing possible bomb belt

By JOSEPH WILSON and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

Younes Abouyaaqoub, Barcelona van suspect wearing bomb belt, shot dead outside city

Associated Press

Spanish police Monday shot and killed a man suspected of driving a van into a sidewalk crowd in Barcelona, killing 13. The suspect's death temporarily united Catalonians and Spaniards amid a contentious Catalonian independence movement. (Associated Press)

Catalan independence movement feared to worsen divisions in Spain

By Braden Phillips — Special to The Washington Times