Death toll rises to 14 in Spain terror attack

The number of people killed in Thursday's double terror attacks rose to 14, as Spanish people demonstrated defiance and condolences by leaders of the world poured in on Friday.

Thirteen people were killed Thursday afternoon in the popular Las Ramblas area of Barcelona when a white van zigzagged at high speed down the busy avenue thronged with tourists, knocking down pedestrians.

On Thursday night, the 14th victim, a woman, was stabbed and later died at hospital on Friday, when five people jumped out of a car and began attacking people at random on the seaside promenade in Cambrils, a town south of Barcelona. Spanish police shot all five attackers dead.

VICTIMS FROM 34 NATIONALITIES

"A woman injured yesterday in Cambrils attack has died. 14 citizens died yesterday in #Barcelona and Cambrils terrorist attacks," Catalan emergency services tweeted Friday.

Suspects of Cambrils terrorist attack carried an ax and knives and wore belts with false explosives attached to the body, the Catalan police, Mossos d'Esquadra, said on Twitter Friday.

Barcelona attacker Moussa Oukabir who drove a white van into the crowd in pedestrian boulevard of Las Ramblas, a popular tourist destination in Spain, was one of the terrorists who was shot and killed by police in Cambrills Friday, EFE news agency reported Friday.

Oukabir was born in Spain but had a Moroccan passport, the report said, quoting police sources. Four people were arrested following the attacks.

Catalan emergency services also said the number of the injured has risen to 130 in the double terror attacks.

A provisional assessment showed that the victims of the double attacks are of 34 nationalities, the service posted on its Twitter account.

Among those injured in Barcelona's terrorist attack, three were Chinese, Embassy sources confirmed on Friday.

One person from China's Hong Kong was to leave Spain this afternoon on a Qatar Airways flight from El Prat airport, after being accompanied by a civil servant from the People's Republic of China General Consulate in Barcelona.

Two people from China's Taiwan remained in hospital where they were visited by civil servants from the People's Republic of China General Consulate in Barcelona.