Urgent: Barcelona terrorist Younes Abouyaaqoub shot and killed by police

BARCELONA, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Catalan police on Monday confirmed that Younes Abouyaaqoub, the man confirmed as the author of Thursday's terror attack which killed 14 people in Barcelona, has been "shot down".

"We confirm that the man shot down in #Surirats is Younes Abouyaaqoub, author of the terrorist attack in #Barcelona," Catalan police tweeted.

Abouyaaqoub was shot at around 17:00 hours in the town of Subirats, which is around 50 kilometers to the south-west of Barcelona.