Moroccans Among the Barcelona Terror Attack Victims

Moroccan nationals are among the victims of the Las Ramblas vehicle-ramming attack which left 14 dead and more than 100 injured Thursday afternoon. The Spanish Civil Protection has announced that the victims of the attacks are of 34 different nationalities.

The exact number of Moroccan victims have not yet been disclosed, nor whether they are dead or injured. However, according to concordant sources, at least four Moroccan nationals were wounded in the Las Ramblas attack.

The Spanish authorities announced earlier Friday, August 18 that the identities of the victims would be revealed only after the end of the identification process and that the families would be the first to be informed.

By Friday morning, 14 people were dead and more than 100 injured. They come from countries including Germany, France, Belgium, Algeria, Kuwait, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Venezuela, Australia, Ireland, Peru, and China.

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The first of the dead to be named was an Italian man, Bruno Gulotta, who was on holiday with his partner and two children, according to his colleagues at the online tech publication Tom’s Hardware.

The second victim was a Belgian woman, Elke Vanbockrijck. Patrick Dewael, the mayor of Tongeren, sent his condolences and told Belgian radio that he had presided over her wedding in 2014. Vanbockrijck, 44, was reported to have been in the city on holiday with her husband and two sons, aged 11 and 14.

The youngest victim of the attacks is a three-year-old girl, Spanish media reported. She died shortly after she was taken to hospital. A six-year-old girl of unknown nationality was taken to hospital with a cerebral haemorrhage, an official at Vall d’Hebron university hospital told the New York Times.

Source: BNA