Authorities in Spain said Monday they believe the driver responsible for killing 13 people in a ramming attack last week in Barcelona is a 22-year-old Moroccan man they have been searching for as the last member of a 12-person cell still at large. VOA reports.
Catalan interior minister Joaquim Forn told Catalunya radio that “everything indicates” Younes Abouyaaqoub was behind the wheel of the van during the attack Thursday that also injured more than 100 people.
Authorities have said they do not know if Abouyaaqoub is still in Spain.
Police have arrested four of the suspects, while the rest were either killed by police or died in an explosion at a house on the day before the attack.Many of the suspects had connections to the northeastern town of Ripoll, one of the places where police have focused their investigation.
In a news conference Sunday, Spanish police reported that they found 120 gas canisters in a home in the town of Alcanar believed to be the bomb-making factory of the suspects in Thursday’s attacks.Enough materials were found to carry out “one or more attacks in Barcelona”, regional police chief Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters, revealing that traces of TATP explosive were also found.