A Canadian grandfather who loved ‘exploring new places’ and drinking a ‘proper-sized pint’ has been confirmed as one of the victims of Thursday’s terror attacks in Catalonia.
The search for seven-year-old Julian Cadman, who was born in Kent but moved to Australia three years ago, desperately continues as the boy’s mother, Jom, is in a serious condition in hospital.
His father, Andrew, has flown from Sydney to Spain to help in the search for his missing son, without knowing whether the boy is dead or alive.
Other families of those missing after the attacks are searching for their loved ones as the death toll rises to 14 and the first victims are identified.
Canadian grandfather Ian Moore Wilson was killed after being hit by the van that crashed through Las Ramblas in Barcelona.
His wife of 53 years – Valerie – was also wounded in the attack.
Wilson has been described by his daughter, Fiona, as a ‘compassionate, generous, adventurous’ man who was ‘always game for a lively debate’ and a ‘good book’.
The staff sergeant at Vancouver Police Department added that ‘in the midst of this tragedy’, her much-loved 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’.
Julian Cadman, seven, who was born in Kent but living in Sydney at the time of the terror attack, is missing. Right: Ian Moore Smith, who was killed in the Barcelona attack, and his wife Valerie, who needed urgent treatment
Julian was pictured enjoying his holiday in Barcelona just hours before the attack took place. British authorities have confirmed ‘a small number of citizens’ were caught up in the attack, but would not say if they were among the injured or dead. Right: Italian Bruno Gulotta, 35, the father of two young children, was crushed to death on Las Ramblas in Barcelona on Thursday
Luca Russo, 25, an engineer from Venice, in Italy, was also confirmed among the dead. He was on holiday at the time of the attack alongside Marta Scomazzon, who is believed to be his fiancee
Miss Scomazzon (pictured with boyfriend Luca before the attack) was left with a broken collarbone after being hit, Italian media reported on Friday
Elke Vanbockrijck, 44, from Belgium, has been identified as being among the dead. Authorities said she was on holiday with her husband and sons when she was run down and killed
The coach of KFC Heur Tongeren football team, where Mrs Vanbockrijck’s 10- and 14-year-old sons played, paid tribute to her on Friday, saying she was ‘always positive’
British tourist Harry Athwal rushed to help a young child who was lying injured on the pavement immediately after Thursday’s horrific terror attack in Barcelona
She thanks ‘Albert’, who ‘threw a family member on the back of his scooter to rush him to the hospital after tragedy struck’ and also the Air Canada worker that offered up a discount card to make her emergency flights cheaper.
‘These are the things we will choose to focus on when we endeavour to come to terms with the senseless violence and acts of hatred that have taken loved ones before their time,’ she said, while also praising the Catalonian medics who gave her mother urgent care and those who stood by her dad in his final moments.
She added: ‘My dad’s passing leaves an immense void in our tight-knit family. He was desperately loved by us all and will be dearly missed.’
The youngest victim of Thursday’s atrocity was just three years old.
Catalonian police said that 50 people are in hospital after the Barcelona attack – including 12 critically, 24 with major injuries, 11 with minor injuries and three with light wounds. In Cambrils, one person has major injuries, two have minor injuries and one is lightly wounded.
Also killed in the attack was 42-year-old Jared Tucker, from California. He and his wife, Heidi Nunes, 40, were separated during the attack.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed the death of one American and said ‘we are still in the process of confirming the deaths and injuries of others’ without giving further details.
Elsewhere the first of those to be confirmed dead in the ISIS attack on Las Ramblas were named as Italians Bruno Gulotta and Luca Russo, Belgian mother Elke Vanbockrijck, 44, and Spaniard Fransisco Lopez Rodriguez, 57.
A three-year-old boy, believed to be Mr Rodriguez’ grand-nephew, also died. He was walking with his mother, grandmother, sister and aunt – who was injured trying to save him.
Spaniard Pepita Codina, 75, was killed in the attack, while Ana Maria Suarez, 61, died after being stabbed by terrorists in Cambrils.
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has said one Canadian was killed and four others were injured in Barcelona.
A shocked British father has spoken about the moment he rushed to help a young boy who had been injured in Barcelona.
Harry Athwal, from Birmingham, saw the child lying injured in the road immediately after the van was driven through crowds of pedestrians.
Mr Athwal, 44, who was pictured comforting the child, told The Mirror: ‘The police were telling me to move but I would not leave him. All the time I was thinking the terrorists could come back but I was not leaving that child. To me, he looked like my own son.’
He said the boy’s leg was bent the wrong way and he could not detect a pulse.
Spanish authorities say 57-year-old Francisco Lopez Rodriguez (pictured on Las Ramblas moments before the attack) died on the spot after being hit by ISIS terrorists. He was earlier reported as missing
Heidi Nunes, from California, said online that her husband Jared Tucker, 43, is missing after the pair got separated on Las Ramblas during the attack. Rex Tillerson has confirmed one American death and said the State Department is ‘still confirming the deaths and injuries of others’, without giving specific details
Daniel Tucker told The Daily News of New York that his son Jared Tucker’s body was identified by his wife at the morgue on Friday.
He said of the attack, which ISIS has claimed responsibility for: ‘It’s just something we really just don’t understand.’
Mr Tucker and his wife, Heidi Nunes, were visiting Barcelona for their first wedding anniversary. He and his father worked together installing swimming pools. The elder Tucker told the newspaper that ‘everybody loved him’.
Nunes and Tucker married last year before taking a belated honeymoon to Europe two weeks ago. They visited Paris and Venice before going to Barcelona, pictured here moments before the attack
Norma, who is Julian’s aunt but referred to in the family as granny, described the boy as ‘lovely’, ‘bubbly’ and ‘sweet’
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said authorities are ‘urgently looking into reports’ of a dual-nationality child believed to be missing in Spain, and confirmed that ‘a number of British nationals’ were caught up in the attack.
Mrs May gave no indication if those Britons were among the wounded or killed.
A 74-year-old Portuguese woman from Lisbon is also among the dead, national newspaper Journal de Noticitas wrote, while her 20-year-old granddaughter is also missing.
Mrs Nunes, from Walnut Creek, in California, told NBC she had been touring Europe with husband Jared for two weeks as part of a belated honeymoon their pair had saved for. They were married last year.
The couple had been drinking outside before Mrs Nunes said she wanted to go and look at some jewellery and her husband said he was heading to the bathroom.
Moments later chaos broke out as a van ploughed into crowds and people began screaming and running. Mrs Nunes said she was pushed into a tourist kiosk where she sheltered until the attack was over. She has not seen her husband since, but is aware of an image circulating online that appears to show him badly wounded.
Mr Gulotta, a computer salesman from Legnano, in northern Italy, was crushed to death in Barcelona as he walked along holding his six-year-old son’s hand.
His wife, Martina, said he died kneeling down to shield their son and seven-month-old daughter from the van, according to boss Pino Bruno, who claimed to have spoken with her.
His seven-month-old daughter ‘will never know her dad’ the family said in an online statement that praised his kindness and described him as a ‘generous and heartfelt person’.
Mr Russo was in the city along with his fiancee, named by Italian media as Marta Scomazzon, who is thought to have suffered a fractured collarbone.
Meanwhile Belgian authorities named Mrs Vanbockrijck, from Tongeren, as among the dead, saying she was on holiday with her husband and sons at the time.
Arnould Partoens, president of the KFC Heur Tongeren football team, said Vanbockrijck was at the club ‘nearly every day,’ ferrying her 10- and 14-year-old boys back and forth to training and matches. He described her as very committed, often speaking her mind about the boys’ and their teams’ performances.
‘She was not negative. She was always positive,’ he said in a phone interview. He said the team would hold one minute of silence before every match and training session this weekend.
Partoens said the family was on vacation in Barcelona. The boys and their father, a policeman, were unhurt, he said. ‘The mother was in the wrong moment and the wrong place,’ he said.
Spanish authorities said Mr Rodriguez, who was pictured on Las Ramblas moments before the attack, died on the spot after being hit by the terrorist’s van. He was earlier reported as missing.
Elsewhere on Friday:
- Police are still hunting for Moussa Oukabir, 17, believed to be the van driver from Barcelona, though Catalan police suggest could have been among the five terrorists shot dead during a later attack in Cambrils;
- Officers said four people have been arrested over the attacks – three in Ripoll and one in Alcanar. Three are Moroccans and another is a Spaniard from the North African enclave of Melilla, none of them have any terrorist background, they are aged between 21 and 34
- Authorities named three other men they are searching for as Mohamed Hychami, Younes Abouyaaqoub and Said Aallaa, all Moroccan and aged between 17 and 24
- Police said the men had been planning the attack ‘for some time’, working as part of a cell operating out of Alcanar. Chief Josep Luis Trapero said the exact number is unknown, and could not rule out further attacks;
- Spanish authorities said that citizens of 34 countries were among the wounded, including those from as far afield as China, Honduras, Kuwait, Venezuela, Pakistan and Australia;
- King Felipe led a minute of silence in Barcelona as thousands of people turned out holding Catalan flags to pay tribute to the victims.
Spanish police confirmed that a fourth person has been arrested in connection with the attacks on Friday as a man was pictured being led away from a house in Ripoll, north of Barcelona
Driss Oukabir, 28, the brother of the suspected van driver, lives in Ripoll where he handed himself over to police on Thursday, while another man was also arrested there
King Felipe VI (centre), Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (to his left), and President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont (to his right) led a minute of silence in Barcelona on Friday for the victims of the attack
Thousands gathered in Catalonia Square in the centre of the city in order to honour the 13 people who died in the city, and another woman who passed away on Friday after being struck in a second attack in Cambrils
Women on Las Ramblas, the street where the attack took place, break down in tears as they remember victims of the attack
Moroccan-born Moussa Oukabir, 18, who lives in Barcelona, has been named as a suspect in the Las Ramblas attack after reportedly stealing his brother’s ID to rent the van and is still on the run
Seven-year-old Julian Cadman’s grandmother Norma Canaveral told MailOnline: ‘We are just so worried. I am just waiting for news, hoping for good news.’
The 66-year-old, from London, said: ‘I don’t know what to say. His mother is in the hospital, she’s ok, but she became separated from Julian and we don’t know where he is. All we can do it wait.’
Julian was born in Kent and attended the Chiddingstone Nursery before moving to Sydney three years ago with his parents Jom and Andrew Cadman.
THE TERRORISTS KILLED AND SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER THE BARCELONA ATTACKS
As of Friday afternoon, four people have been arrested and 14 people have been killed in connection with the terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambril.
The four arrested include one Spanish and one Moroccan national, one of whom was detained at the scene on Las Ramblas on Thursday.
Another handed himself in to police: This is Driss Oukabir, 28, (pictured) a Moroccan national living in Ripoll, 65 miles north of Barcelona.
He claims he is not connected and that his identity documents had been stolen by his younger brother Moussa Oukabir, 18, who is now being hunted by police.
The third arrest, a man of unknown nationality, was also made in Ripoll, on Friday morning.
Another arrest is believed to have taken place in Ripoll on Friday morning after a heavy police presence was seen there.
Five men wearing ‘suicide belts’ were shot dead by police after they launched a second terrorist attack in Cambrils, 70 miles southwest of Barcelona at 1am Friday morning, injuring seven people by driving an Audi A3 into crowds on the seafront. It has since emerged that their bomb vests were fake.
A sixth person died earlier in the week in what police initially believed to have been a gas explosion in Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, but which has since been linked to the terror attacks on Thursday.
Separately, another man was found dead in a Ford Focus on Thursday. Police say he was a Spanish national who was killed as the terrorists tried ti hijack his vehicle.
Andrew is from Australia and Jom is originally from The Philippines.
Jom is in hospital in Barcelona as she recovers from yesterday’s attack on Las Ramblas. Julian is still missing. Andrew has flown from Sydney to Spain.
Norma, who is Jom’s aunt, but is called ‘granny’ by Julian, said her daughter Christabel Juguilon had been calling relatives to find out what has happened to Julian.
Her other daughter Norie-Jean, Jom’s niece, added: ‘I saw the post about Julian being missing on Facebook this morning but we don’t know any more.
‘Julian’s a really sweet boy. He loves to dance, he’s a lovely, bubbly boy.’
The Queen has sent a message of sympathy to the King of Spain following the terror attack, saying: ‘It is deeply upsetting when innocent people are put at risk in this way when going about their daily lives.’
Appeals for the missing came as three Germans were also listed among the dead, according to Spanish media.
A six-year-old girl of unknown nationality is in serious condition in hospital after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage, the New York Times reports.
Norman and Pederlita Putot, who were born in the Philippines but lived in Ireland, were named by RTE as among those caught up in the attack along with their two Irish-born children.
Their five-year-old son, who was not named, suffered a broken leg in the attack and is now in hospital along with his father, who suffered knee injuries.
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said: ‘It’s a miracle that more Irish people weren’t involved, given that there are so many Irish people in Spain, Barcelona and Cambrils at this time of year.
‘At the moment, you can safely say that over 300,000 Irish people are in Spain, today as we speak.
‘This is not just an attack on Spain or on Barcelona, but it’s an attack on the way we live as European citizens in the free world.’
French authorities initially said 26 of its citizens were in hospital, though that number was downgraded to 18 on Friday afternoon.
Eight of those are in a serious condition, including four children whose ages were not given. French citizens were among those hurt in both attacks.
Julie Bishop, Australia’s minister for foreign affairs, said two citizens were in critical condition following the attack, two more were injured, and a total of 16 Australians were caught up in the attack.
Belgium’s foreign affairs minister Didier Reynders confirmed one citizen had been killed and another two injured, including one in serious condition.
Meanwhile Greek authorities said three people had been injured, identifying them as a woman and her two children, though the extent of their injuries is unclear.
Chinese authorities said one person from Hong Kong was among those hurt, while the US also confirmed an American suffered minor injuries.
Three Dutch are also among the injured, though it is not known how badly.
Five Cubans were identified among the injured on Friday as the country’s embassy in Spain said four were hurt in Barcelona and a fifth received minor injuries in the Cambrils attack that wounded a total of seven people, including a police officer.
Spanish authorities gave a full list of the countries with wounded involved in the two attacks. They are: Germany, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Romania, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Spain, North America, Philippines, France, Britain, Greece, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Macedonia, Mauritania, Pakistan, Peru, Dominican Republic, and Turkey.
The van used to plough into crowds in Barcelona is towed away by police in the early hours of this morning with the driver still believed to be at large
There are harrowing scenes in Barcelona after a van was driven into pedestrians in Las Ramblas in the heart of the city. Thirteen people have been killed and more than 100 have been injured as armed police swarm the streets
In Barcelona, a hired van (pictured), registered to rental company Telefurgo, rammed into scores of holidaymakers and their children. The crumpled van is pictured as a body lies on the ground
This is the overturned Audi A3 used by a gang of five jihadis in suicide belts who ploughed into crowds in the seaside town of Cambrils. The attack 70 miles from Barcelona came eight hours after 13 were killed in the Catalan city in a van attack
The killers, wearing fake explosive belts and clutching knives, bailed out of the shattered Audi and were seen smiling and shouting taunts at police shot them dead in the street at around 1am local time
Police say the terror cell were working out of a house in Alcanar where an explosion happened on Wednesday which is linked to the attack. Firefighters have found at least 30 gas canisters at the isolated property
Police shot dead five jihadis wearing fake suicide vests after they drove a car into pedestrians in the city to Barcelona’s south, saying the two attacks were connected.
Meanwhile officers are still hunting for the driver of the van that rammed holidaymakers in Barcelona.
He is believed to be Moussa Oukabir, an 18-year-old Moroccan-born teenager, who rented the vehicle using documents under the name of Driss Oukabir, his brother.
Driss, 26, handed himself over to police yesterday after being named as a suspect, saying he was not involved.
Police are linking the two attacks and believe a terror cell with up to 12 members lived in the resort town of Alcanar, 120 miles south of Barcelona, where a house-cum-bomb factory packed with gas canisters was destroyed in an explosion on Wednesday killing one man and injuring another.
Four men including Driss have been arrested – police initially identified a fifth suspect who had apparently rammed a barricade in Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, but he was later identified as a victim who had been carjacked by the terrorists.
The terror began in Barcelona yesterday and spread to Cambrils overnight and police believe the terror cell has a safe house in Alcanar and has links to Moroccan brothers from Ripoll
How the Barcelona attack unfolded: Map shows the route the terrorist took as he ploughed into scores of holidaymakers