DAD’S MERCY DASH

JULIAN’S FAMILY IN SPAIN

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has described a Sydney family’s ordeal as “tragic” as the father of seven-year-old Julian Cadman arrived in Barcelona to try and find out what has happened to his son after last week’s terror attack in Barcelona.

Andrew Cadman was rushed from the airport by Australian consular officials and police to Barcelona’s main justice and forensic centre. It is thought he was then being taken to hospital where his seriously injured wife and Julian’s mother, Jom, is being treated.

The cars avoided waiting British and Australian media and a cordon was imposed at the hospital.

Julian became separated from his mother when a van ploughed into crowds in the city’s busy Las Ramblas district last Thursday evening.

“Our prayers go out to all the victims, but we to pray that little boy will be found and will be restored alive to his parents,” Mr Turnbull told reporters in Sydney yesterday.

“It is a very tragic circumstance and one of great risk.”

At the weekend, British authorities and Spanish police denied reports Julian, who is understood to be a dual British-Australian citizen, had been found at a hospital in Barcelona.

“Our thoughts are with the victims of these terrible attacks and the people of Spain,” a spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London said. “We are currently assisting a small number of British people affected.”

DFAT said it was working in close co-operation with Spanish and UK officials but declined to comment further.

Another Sydney woman, Suria Intan is also in a serious condition in hospital after being injured in the attack. Victorian men Robert Bogdanovski and Anthony Colombini were released from hospital.

At least 100 people were injured and 14 killed in the attack claimed by Islamic State.