The main suspect in the terrorist attack in Barcelona have disappeared from the scene in a stolen car. About it reports Reuters referring to the statement of representatives of the Catalan police.
According to law enforcement officials, 22-year-old Younes Abuaku after hitting a pedestrian on Las Ramblas 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, Younes was able to break out of the cordon.
Later police found the car in which there was a corpse of the owner. The authorities are inclined to admit of the deceased the 15th victim of a terrorist attack.
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 the attack took banned in Russia grouping “Islamic state”.