Sunday, August 27, 2017

"Terrorism" in the News

Van Driver in Barcelona Attack Is Killed by Police." New York Times, 21 Aug.
     2017. The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/europe/
     spain-catalunya-barcelona-imam.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FTerrorism&acti
     on=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=l
     atest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection. Accessed 27 Aug. 2017.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/world/europe/spain-catalunya-barcelona-imam.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FTerrorism&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection

On August 17th, a terrorist attack occurred in Barcelona where a van driver drove through a crowd of people. After driving through the crowd of people in Las Ramblas, he escaped on foot and was nowhere to be found.  Following this, there was a 4 day search for the van driver. A woman saw a suspicious figure that she recognized to be the man who drove the van and shortly after police arrived at the site and cornered and shot the man. They killed the 22-year old man in the area west of the city.

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