British-Australian boy, 7, killed in Spain attack – official
Fourteen people were killed in twin assaults in Spain, according to the civil protection agency.
A woman gestures as she is escorted out by Spanish policemen outside a cordoned off area after a van ploughed into the crowd, killing 13 persons and injuring over 80 on the Rambla in Barcelona on August 17, 2017. A driver deliberately rammed a van into a crowd on Barcelona’s most popular street on August 17, 2017 killing at least 13 people before fleeing to a nearby bar, police said. Officers in Spain’s second-largest city said the ramming on Las Ramblas was a “terrorist attack”. / AFP PHOTO / PAU BARRENA
A British-Australian boy aged seven, who had been reported as missing by his grandfather, was killed in the vehicle attack in Barcelona, an official from Catalonia region’s emergency services told AFP on Sunday.
Julian Cadman was among 14 people killed in twin assaults in Spain, according to the civil protection agency, which also confirmed the deaths of an Italian and a Belgian on Twitter.
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