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Police search for Spain van driver and missing Moroccan imam | Reading Eagle

BARCELONA, Spain — Authorities in Spain searched Saturday for a member of an Islamic extremist cell that staged vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort, focusing on links with his Moroccan comrades, a missing imam believed to have radicalized them and a house that blew up days ago. Catalan police said the manhunt was centered on Younes Abouyaaquoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan suspected of driving the van that plowed into a Barcelona promenade packed with pedestrians Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring 120. Another attack early Friday killed one person and wounded five in the resort of Cambrils.But the investigation was also focusing on a Moroccan imam who is thought to have radicalized the cell and was believed to have died on the eve of the Barcelona attack , police said.Even with Abouyaaquoub still at large, Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido declared the cell “broken” after five members were killed by police early Friday in a shootout, four were in cus...

Inside the filthy apartment of Barcelona terror attack suspect

Photos from inside the filthy lair of the suspected van driver in the deadly Barcelona terror attack include one showing “The Life of the Prophet Muhammad” religious text on a mattress. Younes Abouyaaquoub, 22, is now Europe’s most-wanted man. He’s believed to have plowed a van down Barcelona's Las Ramblas promenade Thursday , killing 13 people and injuring 120 before fleeing on foot. Another attack hours later killed one person and injured others in the seaside town of Cambrils. The Sun reported Sunday that it obtained exclusive photos of Abouyaaqoub’s modest apartment after it was searched by cops. The photos suggest Abouyaaquoub fled in a hurry. He reportedly shared the apartment with his wife and two young children. The Sun reports the apartment is in Ripoll -- about 65 miles from Barcelona. The photo of the Prophet Muhammad religious text was snapped in a bedroom where a towering pile of clothes could be seen on a metal-frame bed. Another photo shows tools and nails scatt...