Barcelona Terror Attack
A picture taken on August 18, 2017 shows a hat, flowers, candles and other items set up on the Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona to pay tribute to the victims of the Barcelona attack, a day after a van ploughed into the crowd, killing 13 persons and injuring over 100 on August 18, 2017. Police hunted for the driver who rammed a van into pedestrians on an avenue crowded with tourists in Barcelona, leaving 13 people dead and more than 100 injured, just hours before a second assault in a resort along the coast. Photo: Getty Images

The terrorist attack of August 17, in the tourist area of ​​Las Ramblas located in the heart of Barcelona, ​​left behind the painful and irreparable loss of 14 people and more than 100 injured.

The area, where people from all corners of the world visit especially in summer time with the intention of taking advantage of the pleasant temperatures to go for a walk with their significant others, became the street of terror when a soulless outrage to hundreds of innocent people, aboard a white van that after being driven for 500 meters against the crowd left victims of 34 different nationalities, according to the Catalan authorities.

These nationalities include both fatal and wounded victims:

  1. Algeria
  2. Australia
  3. Morocco
  4. Glen
  5. Colombia
  6. Egypt
  7. Honduras
  8. Hungary
  9. Mauritania
  10. Dominican Republic
  11. Germany
  12. Algeria
  13. Argentina
  14. Austria
  15. Belgium
  16. Cuba
  17. Ecuador
  18. Spain
  19. USA
  20. Philippines
  21. France
  22. United Kingdom
  23. Greece
  24. Netherlands
  25. Ireland
  26. Italy
  27. Kuwait
  28. Macedonia
  29. Pakistan
  30. Peru
  31. Romania
  32. Taiwan
  33. Turkey and
  34. Venezuela

Although most of the fatal victims have not been identified, the names of two men of Italian nationality, Luca Russo and Bruno Gulotta, are among the dead, according to Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.

According to CNN, a 74-year-old Portuguese woman, and a Belgian citizen died in the attack, while US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that an American was killed. Among the wounded Hispanics, Ecuador's Foreign Ministry published in their official Twitter account that two compatriots were slightly injured. The Colombian Foreign Ministry also reported that a Colombian is injured and they are looking for a missing person.

Hours after the first attack, five terrorists frightened Cambrils, a town a few kilometers from Barcelona. During the incident, the five puppeteers were beaten and shot dead by the police. During this attack, a woman died and other people were injured.

Four people have been arrested and the driver's whereabouts are still unknown; according to the witnesses the person ran out in unknown direction. ISIS mentions the attacks in its information page, Amaq, asserting that the attackers are "soldiers of the Islamic State," but at no time they explicitly attributed the attack.

In the morning of the following day, a crowd arrived to the place of the attack where now there are tributes with flowers, candles and messages, to pay respect to the victims. The Spanish government decreed three days of national mourning.

Barcelona Terror Attack
People gather around tributes laid on Las Ramblas near the scene of yesterday's terrorist attack, on August 18, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Fourteen people were killed and dozens injured when a van hit crowds in the Las Ramblas area of Barcelona on Thursday. Spanish police have also killed five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils to stop a second terrorist attack. Photo: Getty Images

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