CELL ‘DISMANTLED’
Some 34 nationalities were among almost 130 people wounded in the attacks in Las Ramblas and in Cambrils, which lies around 70 miles to the south west.
The victim of the second assault in Cambrils has been identified as a Spanish woman.
Relatives of a seven-year-old who became separated from his mother during the Barcelona attack are continuing to appeal for information.
The father and grandmother of Julian Alessandro Cadman are travelling to Spain from Australia as the wait for news continues, family member Debbie Cadman said.
Speaking after the family’s initial plea for help, Prime Minister Theresa May said a child with dual British nationality was believed to be among those unaccounted for.
Four Australians were injured in the attack, the country’s foreign minister Julie Bishop said.
Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau said one Canadian was killed and four injured during the attacks.
Vancouver Police Department confirmed the Canadian killed in the attack was Ian Moore Wilson.
A statement released by his daughter Fiona, a staff sergeant in the force, said he was a “much-loved husband, father, brother, and grandfather” and was compassionate, adventurous and generous.
Authorities said 53 people injured in the attacks were still in hospital on Saturday, with 13 in a critical condition and 22 in a serious condition.
It comes after police said the terrorists behind the rampage were preparing bigger attacks, with a suspected gas explosion on Wednesday at a house in Alcanar believed to have robbed the killers of materials to use in larger-scale operations.
On Saturday police carried out controlled explosions in the town
Reports from Spain had earlier suggested the terror cell may have been planning an attack using gas canisters.
Catalan regional police official Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters on Friday: “We think they were preparing at least one or more attacks in Barcelona.
“The explosion in Alcanar at least avoided some of the material they were counting on to carry out even bigger attacks than the ones that happened.
“Because of that the attack in Barcelona and the one in Cambrils were carried out in a bit more rudimentary way than the one they had initially planned.”
Police are also looking for a white Kangoo vehicle, which is believed to have been rented by the suspects and could have crossed the border into France, according to French media.
The attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils took place around eight hours apart on Thursday afternoon and in the early hours of Friday.
In an echo of the London Bridge attack in June, Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont said the five terrorists in the Cambrils car were wearing fake suicide belts when they were stopped.
Police said that an axe and knives were also found in the vehicle, with one of the latter used to wound one person in the face before the terrorists were gunned down.