ISTANBUL
The death toll from Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Spain has risen to 14, according to local emergency services.
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 man was among over 100 tourists and locals 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 confirmed on Friday 26 French were among those injured in Thursday’s terror attack, 11 of them seriously.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said a number of U.K. citizens were caught up in the incident, including an unnamed British boy who remains missing. Another boy, an Australian, is also thought to be missing.
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.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered his condolences to King Felipe on Thursday following the attacks which he said “showed the brutal face of terrorism once again”.
Arrests
Police say they have made four arrests so far in connection to the attacks, but the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack is still believed to be on the run.
According to local media, police are searching for 18-year-old Moussa Oukabir in connection with the Las Ramblas attack on Thursday.
He is believed to be the brother of Driss Oukabir, arrested in Ripoll, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Barcelona.
Reports claim Moussa Oukabir used documents bearing his brother's name to rent the white van used in the deadly attack.
