Updated at 12:30 p.m. ET

Catalan police say they have shot and killed Younes Abouyaaqoub, the alleged driver of a van that plowed into pedestrians last week in Barcelona. Authorities say he appeared to have been wearing a belt with explosives.

In a tweet in Catalan, Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan police force, said they confirmed that Abouyaaqoub was killed in Subirats, a town just west of Barcelona on Spain’s Mediterranean resort coast. NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, reporting from Spain, also confirms he was killed.

Abouyaaqoub, 22, was the last of a dozen suspects still sought in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.

The Catalan police force responded Monday after several citizens in the town of Subirats reported a suspicious individual who fit the description of Abouyaaqoub, according to Catalan radio Cadena Ser.

Mossos d’Esquadra tweeted in English: “The suspicious man in Subirats wears what looks like a belt of explosives attached to the body. This man has been shot down.” In a subsequent tweet, in Catalan, police said they were using a robot to approach the scene.

Police had accounted for all suspects in last week’s attacks except Abouyaaqoub, who has been the subject of an extensive days-long manhunt. He was believed to have been the driver of a van that smashed into pedestrians at the  promenade in Barcelona on Thursday, killing 13 people there.

Hours after that attack, another person was killed in a separate car-ramming in the seaside resort of Cambrils.

Four people have been arrested in the attacks, three Moroccans and a Spanish citizen. The remaining seven members of what authorities have described as a jihadist cell are believed to have been killed.

On Monday, authorities said that while fleeing the scene of his initial attack, Abouyaaqoub hijacked a car and stabbed to death its occupant. That brings the total number of people killed as a result of last Thursday’s attacks to 15.

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