Police say they identified the remains of the last suspected member of a cell which carried out terror attacks in northeastern Spain.
“Youssef Aalla is the last corpse identified in the Alcanar explosion,” Catalan regional police says, referring to an accidental blast at the jihadists’ bomb factory on the eve of the August 17 assault in Barcelona.
“That is the last known member of the cell” whose remains had not been formally identified, they say.
The explosion also killed an imam, Abdelbaki Es Satty, who is believed to have radicalized the young men in the cell.
It was so strong that “the mushroom cloud that was generated was visible several kilometers (miles) around,” according to court documents.
The blast forced the suspects to turn instead to using vehicles as weapons.
They ran down people in a crowded avenue in Barcelona on August 17, and in the nearby seaside town of Cambrils in the early hours of the following day. Fifteen people were killed and more than 120 injured.
— AFP
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