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Death toll from Spain terror attacks rises to 14

The death toll from Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Spain has risen to 14, according to local emergency services.

Axaer.az reports that, the fourteenth victim was a female, according to the Catalan authorities on Friday. She was one of at least seven people injured in an attack in Cambrils town, close to Barcelona in the early hours of Friday.

Spanish police shot and killed five suspected terrorists in an operation after the attackers drove a vehicle into a crowd.

The incident in Cambrils followed another deadly vehicle attack in central Barcelona in which a Turkish national was among over 100 people wounded.

On Friday, the emergency services in Catalonia said 34 different nationalities were among those killed and injured in the Barcelona and Cambrils incidents.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday 26 French were among those injured in Thursday’s terror attack, 11 of them seriously.

Police say they have made three arrests in connection to the attacks, but the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack is still believed to be on the run.

A minute’s silence was held in Barcelona earlier on Friday, attended by Spain’s Felipe VI and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Security across several Spanish cities has been tightened. Flags at Spanish official buildings as well as embassies and consulates are flying at half-mast as three days of mourning begin.

According to local media, police are searching for a man named Moussa Oukabir, believed to be the brother of Driss Oukabir one of those suspects arrested in Ripoll, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Barcelona.

Date
2017.08.18 / 15:59
Author
Axar.az
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