SUSPECTS and victims are now being named following the terrorist attacks on Thursday evening and in the early hours of Friday morning in Barcelona and in Cambrils (Tarragona province).
Driss Oukabir, 28, is in custody but went to police voluntarily to say he had not been involved – his ID had been stolen to rent three vehicles used in the attacks.
His brother Moussa, he said, acquired his documents for the purpose.
Moussa, 17 was one of five terrorists shot dead by police in Cambrils along with Saïd Aalla, 18; Mohammed Hychami, 24, and two other men as yet unnamed.
As well as Driss, 34-year-old Sahal el-Karib and 27-year-old Mohammed Aalla, 27, thought to be the brother of Saïd, are in custody along with a fourth man caught in the town of Alcanar where a mass fatal explosion led police to identifying the 12 suspects believed to be involved in the two attacks.
The man believed to be the driver of the van which mowed down hundreds of pedestrians on the Ramblas, Barcelona's central boulevard and major tourist artery which runs from the Plaça de Catalunya to the Christopher Columbus statue in the port, remains missing.
He was initially thought to be Driss Oukabir, but is now believed to be Moroccan national Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22.
Abouyaaqoub's whereabouts are not known, but he is not thought to be armed and may have left the country.
Most of the suspects lived in Ripoll, Girona province.
The self-proclaimed 'Islamic State', or DAESH, has claimed responsibility for the attack and cheered on its 'soldiers', as it calls them.
Police are treating the tragedies as terrorism.
Victims identified
Six Spaniards are among the deceased, the first of whom to be named was Francisco López Rodríguez, 60, from Granada; plus a 75-year-old woman from Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà (Barcelona province); a woman with joint Spanish and Argentinian nationality; the woman in Cambrils, who was from Zaragoza; a man from Rubí, Barcelona province and the three-year-old son of his wife's niece – the youngest victim of the attack and one of five children who were killed.
A Belgian woman, two Italians and a Portuguese woman are known to have died, along with 43-year-old Jared Tucker from the USA, who was on honeymoon with his wife Heidi Nunes at the time – when the van ran into Jared, he and Heidi had been relaxing in a pavement café on the Ramblas.
Ian Moore Wilson and his son, a policeman from Vancouver, Canada, are said to have died and Ian's wife Valerie was seriously injured.
Four Australians are hurt, and a boy of seven from Sydney reported missing, although he has now been found.
Several Brits, at least 13 Germans, 26 French nationals, plus tourists from Ireland, The Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Romania, Pakistan, Algeria, Central and South America and south-east Asia were among the 35 nationalities known to be injured.
What we know so far
A white van was seen driving along the pedestrianised Ramblas avenue at around 16.50 on Thursday at high speed – estimated to be between 80 and 140 kilometres per hour – weaving down the street in S-bends to try to crash into as many people as possible.
The van then smashed into a nearby kiosk and the driver, said to be 1.7m (5'7”) tall and wearing a white shirt with blue stripes, fled on foot.
Around 130 people were injured, nearly half of them critical, and 13 were killed outright.
Reports of a shoot-out in the Boquería market were then released.
Other claims that two terrorists had barricaded themselves into the Turkish restaurant at the top of Las Ramblas, La Luna de Istambul, holding customers hostage turned out not to be true, although diners inside at the time were locked in for their own safety.
Numerous others sought refuge in cafés, shops and the iconic Virreina Palace off the Ramblas.
Police were said to be searching for a second white van, which it later transpired they suspected was filled with explosives, but which was found in Vic to the north of Barcelona with nothing dangerous inside it.
The Cambrils attack was carried out by a hired Audi A3 at around 01.00 on Friday, leaving six people injured, one of whom – a woman – died in hospital hours later.
Police say the Audi overturned and five terrorists got out, wearing suicide bombing vests.
Officers shot them all down, killing four outright – including Moussa Oukabir – and a fifth died later from his injuries whilst in custody.
Security forces say the two attacks are linked, and that their having shot down the occupants of the Audi prevented a much greater tragedy.
Driss and Moussa are said to hold joint Moroccan and Spanish nationality, despite having been born in Marseille, southern France, and live in Ripoll.
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