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		</div><h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>Police shoot Younes Abouyaaqoub Barcelona van attacker wearing an explosives belt </strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>The 22-year-old Morrocan national wearing an apparent explosives belt, shouted “Allahu akbar” as police converged on him in Subirats, about 37 miles outside Barcelona </strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>Bomb-disposal robot removed possible explosives from his body </strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>Following last week&#8217;s attacks by Abouyaaqoub and his co-terrorists four people have been arrested so far &#8211; three Moroccans and a citizen of Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla</strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>In the twin-attacks 14 people died with 120 injured in Barcelona </strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>Abouyaaqoub allegedly fled the scene on foot, hijacked a vehicle, stabbing the motorist dead in the process to claim his 15th victim</strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>In the coastal resort town of Cambrils, a car crashed into passers-by and its occupants got out and tried to stab people</strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>Five suspects were shot dead by cops while a Spanish woman died in the Cambrils attack</strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>Of the 120 injured on Las Ramblas, nine remain hospitalized in critical condition </strong></span></h6>
<h6 style="padding-left:30px;"><span style="color:#120101;"><strong>ISIS has claimed responsibility for the ma</strong>yhem</span></h6>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-239779" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/younes-abouyaaqoub-1.jpg" alt="Younes Abouyaaqoub 1" width="664" height="441" />The fugitive member of the Barcelona terror Jihadist cell Younes Abouyaaqoub [photo], was shot dead by Spanish police on Monday </strong></h6>
<div>Spanish police on Monday shot dead the jihadist believed to have driven the van that killed 14 people and wounded about 120 others in Barcelona, according to reports.</div>
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<p>Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, was wearing an apparent explosives belt and shouted “Allahu akbar” as police surrounded him in ia vineyard in Subirats, a village about 37 miles outside Barcelona, local media reported.<br />
“They have shot dead a suspect who could be the perpetrator of the attack,” a source close to the probe told AFP on condition of anonymity.<br />
The Moroccan national had been identified as the driver of the van that <a href="http://konniemoments.com/2017/08/17/police-in-barcelona-shoot-dead-one-terror-suspect-arrest-one-other-thirteen-killed-and-64-injured-as-van-is-crashed-into-crowds-in-las-ramblas-shopping-district/">plowed into pedestrians on Barcelona’s popular La Ramblas</a> promenade on Thursday.<br />
The Spanish newspaper La Va nguardia said Catalonia’s Mossos d’Esquadra police shot the suspect, while Catalan public radio reported that a bomb-disposal robot has removed possible explosives from the terrorist&#8217;s body.</p>
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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-237513" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/emergency-services-rushing-to-the-scene.jpg" alt="Emergency services rushing to the scene" width="962" height="561" /><strong>Younes Abouyaaqoub&#8217;s mid afternoon vehicular terrorist assault on Barcelona&#8217;s tourist district left chaos and carnage in it&#8217;s wake</strong></h6>
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<p>The daughter of a vineyard owner said her dad alerted authorities after they saw a car crossing their property at high speed even though the vineyard was closed off.<br />
Roser Venura said police told them to immediately leave the Ventura Soler cava vineyard, located between the towns of Sadurni d’Anoia and Subirats.<br />
“We heard a helicopter flying around and many police cars coming toward the gas station” near the property, she said.<br />
Police said Abouyaaqoub fled Las Ramblas on foot amid the pandemonium after the carnage, then hijacked a Ford Focus after stabbing its driver, Pau Perez, 34, to death and then crashing through as Spanish police shot at him at a checkpoint.<br />
Perez’s body was found in the back seat of abandoned the car in Sant Just Desvern outside Barcelona on Friday.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-237454" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/hired-van-photo-registered-to-rental-company-telefurgo-rammed-into-scores-of-holidaymakers-and-their-children.jpg" alt="Hired van (photo), registered to rental company Telefurgo, rammed into scores of holidaymakers and their children" width="962" height="552" /> <strong>Younes Abouyaaqoub driving this rental van photo], deliberately zig-zagged through a crowded Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Thursday killing 14 and injuring 120. He fled on foot before killing a motorist and hijacking his car to claim his 15th victim</strong></h6>
<p>Abouyaaqoub – who lived in Ripoll, a town north of Barcelona close to French border — had been the only one of 12 accomplices still at large.<br />
His mother, Hannou Ghanimi, had appealed for him to surrender, saying she would rather see him in prison than end up dead.<br />
Four people have been arrested so far in the twin attacks, three Moroccans and a citizen of Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla.<br />
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Barcelona and the coastal resort town of Cambrils, where a car crashed into passers-by and its occupants got out and tried to stab people.<br />
Five suspects were shot dead by cops while a Spanish woman died in the attack.<br />
Of the 120 injured on Las Ramblas, nine remain hospitalized in critical condition. One of the injured victims died Friday from her injuries.</p>
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