2017 Catalonia attacks
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Key facts
- Date
- 17–18 August 2017 , 16:54–01:15 CEST ( UTC+2 )
- Target
- Pedestrians
- Attack type
- Vehicle-ramming attack , stabbing , mass murder
- Weapons
- Alcanar : Acetone peroxide , gas cylinders (accidental explosion), Barcelona : Fiat Talento and a knife, Cambrils : Audi A3 , knives and axe
- Deaths
- 24 (including 8 attackers)
- Motive
- Islamic extremism
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
On the afternoon of 17 August 2017, 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drove a van into pedestrians on La Rambla street in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others, one of whom died 10 days later on 27 August. Abouyaaqoub fled the attack on foot, then killed another person in order to steal the victim's car to make his escape. He was later killed by police in Subirats, a town 31 kilometres (19 mi) west of Barcelona, on 21 August.
Nine hours after the Barcelona attack, five men thought to be members of the same terrorist cell drove into pedestrians in nearby Cambrils, killing one woman and injuring six others. All five of those attackers were shot and killed by police.