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Police in Spain have linked three rental vans to the fugitive at the centre of a manhunt following terror attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside resort.

Spanish authorities said the terror cell responsible for the attacks has been dismantled, but the search is still on for Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan named in Spanish media as the suspected driver of the van used in the massacre on Las Ramblas that left 13 dead and at least 120 injured.

A police official said all three vans were rented using the credit card of Abouyaaquoub, who remains at large and is the focus of a manhunt in northeast Spain.

The official said one of the vans was used in the Barcelona attack, while another was found in Vic, 44 miles north

“Their theory was that the group had planned ‘one or more attacks with explosives’ in the city”

JOSEP LLUIS TRAPERO