BARCELONA MOURNS AS POLICE HUNT TERROR DRIVER
A GRIEF-stricken Barcelona commemorated victims of two devastating terror attacks as police hunted for a Moroccan man believed to be the driver that killed 14 people.
Investigators continued to try and piece together the attacks that also injured 120.
Police said they had cast a dragnet for 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub, who media reports say was the driver of a van that smashed into people on Barcelona’s busy Las Ramblas boulevard last Thursday. An extensive operation including roadblocks was deployed across Catalonia at the weekend.
After the assaults that struck the busy tourist hub and the nearby seaside town of Cambrils, Spaniards put on a defiant front while mourning the victims, with crowds out in force to greet King Felipe and Queen Letizia as they arrived to pay homage to the victims.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, believed to be its first in Spain. The terror cell in Spain reportedly comprised at least 12 young men.