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Suspected Van Driver In Barcelona Attack Shot Dead By Police

Catalan police confirmed that the man they shot and killed in the town of Subirats was Younes Abouyaaqoub, the alleged driver of the van that hit and killed pedestrians in Barcelona.

Updated at 2:25 p.m. ET

Police have shot and killed Younes Abouyaaqoub, the alleged driver of a van that plowed into pedestrians last week in Barcelona, Catalonia's president confirmed Monday. He said the suspect was wearing what turned out to be a fake explosives belt.

Carles Piugdemont, president of Spain's autonomous Catalonia

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