During a special operation in the town of Subirats near Barcelona by the Spanish police killed Younes of Abuakwa — the main suspect in the terrorist attack in the capital of Catalonia. On Monday, August 21, reports La Vanguardia.
Wanted Abuaku was identified by one of the locals, who called him and asked what he was doing. Instead of answering, the intruder tried to escape. Of the suspicious man reported to the police who began a manhunt in which he was shot. On his body was fixed waistband with explosives.
For mine belt security officers used a special robot.
Earlier, on 21 August it was reported that the suspect committing the pedestrian street Las Ramblas in Barcelona, was detained.
At the same time, the police sources said that Abuaku after the pedestrian left the scene on foot. After that he attacked the driver of a nearby parked car, stabbed him and stole the car. Rammed a police post, Abuaku was able to leave the cordon. Later police found the car in which there was a corpse of the owner.
On the evening of 17 August, the minibus ran into people in the street of Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Later on Avinguda Diagonal is unknown on a truck attacked the police officers guarding the area of the attack. Injured two guards.
That same night in Cambrils, South of Barcelona, another group of terrorists attempted to commit a terrorist attack, ran over to the van people. Seven people were injured, and later one of them died. Four of the attackers were eliminated on the spot, the fifth died later.
Victims of a series of attacks, according to the latest data, there were 15 people, more than 100 were injured. Responsibility for attack was assumed banned in Russia grouping “Islamic state”.