Barcelona attack – Hundreds evacuated from city centre after ‘suspect package found on bus’ – as cops hunt Las Ramblas rampage driver
SHOPS in Spain's Las Ramblas have been evacuated - as one of the Dirty Dozen terror cell who carried out the sickening Barcelona van attack remains at large.
Spanish police officers are at the scene and it is believed a suspect package has been found on a bus.
The train station and underground at Plaza Catalunya were closed and the Fnac shopping centre, located between the square and Pelai Street, was evacuated.
It later emerged the suspect package was a false alarm and police stood down.
Spanish press are reporting that suspected driver Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, stabbed a man as he escaped from the city.
The news comes as Catalan police announced they are focusing their investigation on finding Abouyaqoub, 45-year-old mastermind, Iman Abdelbaki Es Sattyand and Youssef Aalla, brother of one of the terrorists shot in Cambrils after the attack.
Police have poured resources into investigating the two attacks where a group of fanatics massacred 14 people and injured 130 more when vehicles were ploughed into crowds on Barcelona's famous Las Ramblas and a tourist resort Cambrils.
A Catalan government minister said the cell responsible had been "dismantled".
The names of three of the five suspects shot down by police have been revealed as being Said Aallaa, Mohamed Hychami and Moussa Oukabir - the baby-faced "jihadi" whose older brother Driss accused him of stealing his ID to hire the van that mowed down crowds was killed.
The group are thought to be known as the Tarragona Cell, a gang of jihadis who have recently returned from Syria.
But police said on Sunday that none of the members had previous criminal records of terrorism.