The Catalan President confirmed in a news conference on Monday that police had shot dead a man that they suspect was the Islamist militant who drove a van into a Barcelona crowd last week.

Ending a five-day manhunt, police tracked 22-year-old Abouyaaqoub (Abu-yakub) in a rural area near Barcelona. They said they shot him after he held up what appeared to be an explosives belt.

Abouyaaqoub (Abu-yakub)  had been on the run since Thursday, August 17, after he drove at high speed into throngs of people strolling along Barcelona’s most famous avenue, Las Ramblas, in Spain’s worst militant attack in over a decade.

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