“everything suggests the van driver is Younes Abouyaaqoub”.
Barcelona: Spanish police on Monday said that they have identified the driver of the van that mowed down pedestrians on the busy Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona, killing 13. [caption id=“attachment_3943959” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]![Injured people are treated in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 after a white van jumped the sidewalk in the historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people, police said. (AP Photo/Oriol Duran)]()
Injured people are treated in Barcelona. (AP Photo/Oriol Duran)[/caption] On Sunday, Police said security operations were underway in Catalonia and on the French border as they tried to find Moroccan-born Younes Abouyaaqoub (22), who they believed as the only one of 12 suspects still at large. The Catalonia police announced the identification on Twitter, without giving his name but Catalonia’s regional interior minister Joaquim Forn told local radio that “everything suggests the van driver is Younes Abouyaaqoub”.
The suspect remains at large, and police say that they do not know if he is still in Spain. “We don’t know where he is,” regional police chief Josep Lluis Trapero said.
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