Spain police say suspects planned bigger attack

Barcelona: Suspects in Spain's twin terror attacks had been planning an even bigger assault than the deadly car rampages they carried out, police said, as distressing details emerged of families torn apart in the horror.

A 35-year-old Italian was among 14 killed, mowed down in front of his wife and young children in Barcelona when a driver rammed his van through crowds on the busy Las Ramblas boulevard on Thursday, before fleeing on foot. Police said they shot dead five "suspected terrorists" who had knocked pedestrians down in the Catalan seaside resort of Cambrils in a second attack in the early hours of Friday, and arrested four others. Catalonia's regional police identified three of the suspects who were killed as Moroccan nationals. They were Moussa Oukabir, 17, Said Aallaa, 18, and Mohamed Hychami, 24. Police had said they suspect 12 people of involvement in the attacks: the 5 who were killed, 4 who were arrested and three who have been identified but who remain at large.

Barcelona: Spanish cops expanded a manhunt on Saturday for a Moroccan national believed to be one of the perpetrators of twin terror attacks in Barcelona and another seaside resort that killed 14 and wounded around 100. Cops said they were hunting for Younes Abouyaaqoub without confirming reports he was the driver who ploughed a van into pedestrians in Barcelona.