TERROR IN BARCELONA Fears for little Julian
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Sydney boy is missing after becoming separated from his mother in the Barcelona terrorist attack that has killed at least 14 people.
Sydney man Tony Cadman says his grandson Julian Cadman is missing and the boy’s mum Jom is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
“Julian is seven years old and was out with Jom when they were separated, due to the recent terrorist activity,” he said in a Facebook post.
Other family members in Australia and England have issued Facebook appeals for help to find the boy.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has acknowledged that one Australian is missing and said four others were injured in the attack that targeted tourists in the Spanish city’s Las Ramblas district.
“We are concerned, but we are working closely with authorities to determine the whereabouts of the one Australian unaccounted for,” Ms Bishop said.
A NSW woman travelling on a British passport is in a serious condition in hospital, Ms Bishop said. A second NSW woman who suffered serious injuries is in a stable condition.
Two Victorian men were hit by the van driven into crowds on a busy promenade, but have been released from hospital.
At least 100 people were injured in the attack, for which Islamic State claimed responsibility.
Police were last night still hunting for the driver who rammed the van into pedestrians on the Barcelona avenue crowded with tourists, just hours before a second vehicle attack took place in a resort along the coast.
Police said they killed five “suspected terrorists” in the seaside town of Cambrils, 120km south of Barcelona where bystanders and police were injured and one woman was killed when an Audi A3 was driven into pedestrians.
The five men shot by police were reportedly wearing bomb vests.
Three others were arrested in other parts of the Catalonia region where both cities are located, but the driver responsible for the carnage in Barcelona remained at large.
The dead and injured were from at least 34 different countries, officials said, including France, Pakistan, Spain, the Netherlands, China, Venezuela, Mauritania, Australia and Britain.
Earlier one person was killed in a large explosion at a house at Alcana, southwest of Barcelona
Sources told police explosives were being made there.
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