The victims of last week’s attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort town came from around the world and across generations. The latest to be identified by name Tuesday were a Portuguese grandmother and her granddaughter.<\/b>
\nBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The victims of last week\u2019s attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort town came from around the world and across generations. The latest to be identified by name Tuesday were a Portuguese grandmother and her granddaughter.
Fifteen people were killed and more than 120 others wounded in Barcelona and the nearby town of Cambrils on Thursday and Friday. The dead and injured represented nearly three dozen countries, places where loved ones are in mourning or experiencing a new kinship with the people of Spain.
Here are some details about the victims:
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Pau Perez, 34, Spain
Perez was parking his car in Barcelona when the alleged Barcelona van attack driver attacked and stabbed him while fleeing police after mowing down dozens of people on Las Ramblas.
The attacker then dumped Perez\u2019 in the back seat and drove away, later crashing through a police barrier and injuring an officer before ditching the vehicle containing the body in a town outside the Catalan capital.
The confirmation Monday ended days of uncertainty over Perez\u2019s exact fate, although it seems police had already told his family and neighbors in his hometown of Vilafranca de Penedes he was dead, without giving the full details during investigations.
Spanish media said Perez was an NGO worker and keen soccer fan.
The town Twitter account announced it deeply lamented his death, declaring three days of mourning.
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Julian Cadman, 7, Australia and Britain
The British and Australian governments and Catalan emergency services announced the death of 7-year-old Julian Cadman on Sunday. The boy, a dual citizen of Australia and Britain, had been missing since the attack that seriously injured his mother.
Julian and his mother, Jom Cadman, were in Barcelona for a family wedding and enjoying the sights when a van sped down the Las Ramblas promenade targeting pedestrians. His mother, a 43-year-old from the Philippines who had been living in Australia, was hospitalized.
\u201cHe was so energetic, funny and cheeky, always bringing a smile to our faces, \u201d the child\u2019s family said in a statement released by the Australian department for foreign affairs after his death was announced.
On Friday, Julian\u2019s grandfather posted an appeal on Facebook with Julian\u2019s photo asking for help finding him. The Australian prime minister asked people to pray for him, and the British prime minister said the government was urgently looking into his situation.
The family statement extended sympathy to others coping with losses and thanked all those who helped search for Julian, saying \u201cYour kindness was incredible during a difficult time.\u201d
\u201cWe are so blessed to have had him in our lives and will remember his smiles and hold his memory dear to our hearts.\u201d
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Pepita Codina, 75, Spain
Pepita Codina is being honored with a makeshift memorial in Hipolit de Voldrega, her hometown of 3,000 people near Barcelona.
Mayor Xavier Vilamala tweeted that he was \u201cvery sad and distressed\u201d by the news of her death.
Local media reported that Codina\u2019s daughter, Elisabet, was injured in the attack, but is currently out of danger at Hospital del Marin Barcelona.
Neighbor Enriqueta Ordeig described Codina as a \u201cvery good woman\u201d who moved to the town when her husband retired, according to El Pais newspaper.
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Maria de Lurdes Ribeiro, 74, and Maria Correia, 20, Portugal
The granddaughter and grandmother were in Barcelona to celebrate the grandmother\u2019s birthday when they were caught up in the horror on Las Ramblas, according to Portuguese media reports.
They had arrived in the city for a week\u2019s vacation just a few hours before they were killed, Jose Luis Carneiro, a Lisbon official, told reporters.
The older woman was reported dead Friday, while the younger woman was initially reported as missing before finally being identified Saturday. Those hours left her parents in a painful limbo, Carneiro said.
The parents are \u201cbroken-hearted, \u201d Carneiro said. \u201cFirstly, because they were caught by surprise by the death of the man\u2019s mother and then spent hours not knowing what had happened to their daughter.\u201d
They were due to be buried near Lisbon on Wednesday.
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Bruno Gulotta, 35, Italy
A father from Legnano in northern Italy is being praised as a hero who protected his children during the Barcelona attack.
One of Gulotta\u2019s work colleagues, Pino Bruno, told the Italian news agency ANSA that he saved the life of his two young children — Alessandro, 6, and Aria, 7 months — by throwing himself between them and the van that mowed people down.
Bruno said he spoke to Gulotta\u2019s wife, Martina, and she told him her husband had been holding the 6-year-old\u2019s hand on the tourist-thronged avenue in Barcelona when \u201cthe van appeared suddenly.\u201d
\u201cEveryone knelt down, instinctively, as if to protect themselves, \u201d Bruno said, adding that Gulotta put himself in front of his children and was fatally struck.
Gulotta was a sales manager for Tom\u2019s Hardware Italia, an online publication about technology. \u201cRest in peace, Bruno, and protect your loved ones from up high, \u201d read one tribute on the company\u2019s website.
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Carmen Lopardo, 80, Italy
Lopardo, apparently the oldest person to die in the attack, was among three Italians killed in Barcelona, according to Italy\u2019s foreign ministry.
In a statement, it said Lopardo was killed in the \u201cvile terrorist attack in Barcelona, \u201d without providing details.
News reports said Lopardo was an Italian who had immigrated to Argentina in 1950 and was visiting Barcelona.
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Silvina Alejandra Pereyra, 40, Argentina and Spain
Argentina\u2019s Foreign Ministry says Pereyra, an Argentine-Spanish dual citizen who resided in Barcelona for the last 10 years, is among those who died.
It says in a statement that her death was confirmed through family members living in Bolivia after a cousin identified her body at a morgue in Barcelona.
The Argentine government expressed its deep regret over the pain caused to Pereyra\u2019s family and friends and said its diplomatic missions in Barcelona and Madrid are working to assist.
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Francisco Lopez Rodriguez, 57, and Javier Martinez, 3, Spain
Francisco Lopez Rodriguez was killed with his 3-year-old grand-nephew, Javier Martinez, while walking along Las Ramblas.
Lopez was accompanied by his wife, Roser — who is recovering from her wounds in a hospital — her niece and the niece\u2019s two children, one of them Javier.
\u201cHe was a lovely man, kind and charitable\u201d and always telling jokes, said 81-year-old Natalia Moreno Perez from Lopez\u2019s native Lanteira, a town of 700 inhabitants outside Granada in southern Spain.
Lopez left the town with his family in the 1960s to seek work and was a metal worker living in Rubi, a migrant town of 75,000 people northwest of Barcelona.
\u201cWe are a broken family, \u201d niece Raquel Baron Lopez posted on Twitter.
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Luca Russo, 25, Italy
One of Italy\u2019s three victims in the Barcelona van attack is being mourned as a brilliant young engineer dragged to his death before his girlfriend\u2019s eyes.
A determined Luca Russo, 25, already had a job in electronic engineering, no easy feat in Italy, where youth unemployment runs stubbornly high.
\u201cWe were investing in him. We wanted to make him grow professionally, \u201d the Italian news agency ANSA quoted Stefano Facchinello, one of the partners in the Padua-area company where Russo had worked for a year, as saying.
The girlfriend, Marta Scomazzon, who was hospitalized with a fractured foot and elbow, told an aunt that \u201cwe were walking together, then the van came on top of us.\u201d
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Ana Maria Suarez, 67, Spain
The Spanish royal family sent condolences to Ana Maria Suarez\u2019s family via Twitter after she died in the attack in the resort town of Cambrils.
According to local media, Suarez was originally from the city of Zaragoza, and was on vacation with her family. Suarez\u2019s husband and one of her sisters were injured and being treated at a hospital.
They had just eaten dinner and were celebrating the husband\u2019s 69th birthday, walking in the crowded port area of Cambrils hours after the Barcelona attack, according to El Mundo newspaper.
Suarez is the only fatal victim in the attack in Cambrils, where five attackers wearing fake explosives belts were shot dead by police.
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Jared Tucker, 42, United States
California resident Jared Tucker, 42, and his wife were ending their European vacation in Barcelona after visiting Paris and Venice, and were on their way to a beach when they decided to stop at a cafe on Las Ramblas.
Shortly after her husband left to use the restroom, \u201call mayhem broke out, \u201d Heidi Nunes-Tucker told NBC News. Later, she learned that he was among those killed in the truck attack in Barcelona, the only known American fatality.
Nunes-Tucker, 40, called her husband \u201ctruly the love of my life\u201d and says she\u2019s struggling to make sense of the violence.
Tucker\u2019s father, Daniel Tucker, said the couple had saved for the vacation to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Jared Tucker, who worked with his father in a family business remodeling swimming pools, had \u201ca magnetic personality, and people loved him, \u201d his father told The Associated Press. He liked to fish, play golf and other sports, and leaves behind three daughters.
U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expressed condolences to the victim\u2019s family.
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Elke Vanbockrijck, Belgium
Vanbockrijck was at the KFC Heur Tongeren soccer club \u201cnearly every day\u201d ferrying her 10- and 14-year-old boys back and forth to training and matches, team president Arnould Partoens said.
The family was on vacation in Barcelona. The boys and their father, a policeman, were unhurt, he said.
Team vice president Herwig Dessers said coaches and players would stand in silence to remember her over the next few days \u201cand talk to the children about what happened.\u201d
A picture of Vanbockrijck now rests on the bar inside the clubhouse.
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Ian Moore Wilson, 53, Canada
Ian Moore Wilson\u2019s daughter Fiona described him as an adventurous traveler and \u201cmuch-loved husband, father, brother and grandfather.\u201d
The Vancouver police department issued a statement from Fiona, a staff sergeant in the force, saying that Wilson had been killed and his wife, Valerie, had been injured in the attack.
Fiona Wilson and the Vancouver police thanked the emergency workers and others who helped her father in his final moments and got medical assistance for her mother.
\u201cIn the midst of this tragedy, my dad would want those around him to focus on the extraordinary acts of human kindness that our family has experienced over the past several days, and that is exactly what we intend to do, \u201d she wrote.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said four other Canadians were injured in the extremist attacks.
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Ciaran Giles in Madrid; Danica Kirka in London; Barry Hatton and Helena Alves in Lisbon, Portugal; Jocelyn Gecker in Walnut Creek, California; Lorne Cook in Brussels, Nicole Winfield in Rome, Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, and Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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