Barcelona Fugitive Shot Dead Had Knives, Wore Fake Bomb Vest

SUBIRATS, Spain – The lone fugitive from the Spanish cell that killed 15 people in and near Barcelona was shot to death Monday after he flashed what turned out to be a fake suicide belt at two troopers who confronted him in a vineyard just outside the city he terrorized, authorities said. Police said they had “scientific evidence” that Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, drove the van that barreled through Barcelona’s crowded Las Ramblas promenade, killing 13 people on Thursday, then hijacked a car and fatally stabbed its driver while making his getaway. Abouyaaqoub’s brother and friends made up the rest of the 12-man extremist cell, along with an imam who was one of two people killed in what police said was botched bomb-making operation. After four days on the run, Abouyaaqoub was spotted outside a train station about 33 miles west of Barcelona on Monday afternoon.