Police say the driver wanted in the deadly Barcelona van ramming could be armed and dangerous, and apparently fled on foot before he hijacked another vehicle.
Officials say a victim found stabbed dead in a car in Barcelona is linked to the case, raising the death toll to 15.
It is not immediately clear if a man seen running from that car after it crashed into police is Younes Abouyaaqoub, suspected of carrying out the van attack.
“We are raising the number of victims from 14 to 15 to include the victim in the vehicle found in Sant Just,” Catalonia’s regional minister Joaquim Forn tells tells journalists.
In this watermarked frame grab from CCTV released by the Spanish newspaper El Pais on Monday Aug. 21, 2017, a suspect. believed to be Younes Abouyaaqoub is is captured by a security camera walking through La Boqueria market seconds after a van crashed into pedestrians in Barcelona last August 17. (EL Pais, via AP)
Spanish newspaper El Pais published images Monday of what it says is Abouyaaqoub supposedly making a getaway on foot after the Barcelona van attack. The three images show a slim man wearing sunglasses seemingly walking through what El Pais says is traditional La Boqueria market just off Las Ramblas.
— with AP
Help us report truthfully on social media
As a multimedia journalist, my job is to take the quality, fact-based journalism produced by The Times of Israel newsroom and make it accessible across every platform — from Instagram posts to podcasts to short-form videos.
This is how many, especially young people, consume news these days. But misinformation is rampant on social media. Our team at ToI produces accurate, responsible short-form reporting on Israel and the Jewish world.
If you believe in the importance of factual social media journalism, please consider joining our reader support group, The Times of Israel Community. Your financial support is essential to sustain responsible multimedia reporting.
We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month.
That’s why we started the Times of Israel - to provide discerning readers like you with must-read coverage of Israel and the Jewish world.
So now we have a request. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community.
For as little as $6 a month you can help support our quality journalism while enjoying The Times of Israel AD-FREE, as well as accessing exclusive content available only to Times of Israel Community members.
Thank you, David Horovitz, Founding Editor of The Times of Israel
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 21, 2017
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on Google
