As Spain Mourns, Hunt Intensifies for Van Driver in Barcelona Attack
Trapero said that There is explosive material that keeps appearing among the ruins, and it’s a very slow process,
Mr. Abouyaaqoub is believed to be the only member of a cell of at least 12 men who is still on the run, said Maj. Josep Lluís Trapero,
the police chief in the Catalonia region, of which Barcelona is the capital, but whether he was still in Spain was not clear.
20, 2017
BARCELONA, Spain — Spain’s royal family and prime minister joined numerous dignitaries
and Muslim leaders on Sunday to mourn the 14 people killed in twin attacks last week, the deadliest case of terrorism in the country since 2004.
An explosion on Wednesday night that killed at least two people destroyed the house, in Alcanar, a town about 120 miles southwest of Barcelona.
Major Trapero declined to give details on Sunday about the investigation into the imam’s possible role, but he reiterated
that neither the imam nor the members of the cell, many of whom were teenagers, had known links to terrorism.
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