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The death toll from the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on Thursday stands at 14, although scores more were injured, many of them seriously. Here is what we know about the victims who have been identified so far: The death toll from the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on Thursday stands at 14, although scores more were injured, many of them seriously.
Here is what we know about the victims who have been identified so far:
Jared Tucker, United States
Tucker, 42, had left his wife for a moment shortly before the attack started. The couple, from Walnut Creek, California, were on a tour of Europe to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. They had been enjoying drinks on a pavement cafe on Las Ramblas.
“Next thing I know there’s screaming, yelling,” his wife Heidi Nunes, 40, told NBC News after she failed to find her husband after the attack. “I got pushed inside the souvenir kiosk and stayed there hiding while everybody kept running by, screaming.”
On Friday night his family said that Nunes had identified his body. His father, Daniel Tucker, who worked with his son in the family’s pool business, told the New York Daily News: “It’s just something we really just don’t understand. I don’t know what else to say.”
Bruno Gulotta, ItalyBruno Gulotta, Italy
Gulotta, 35, was on holiday with his wife and two children, according to his colleagues at the online tech publication Tom’s Hardware. Gulotta died on the street in front of his son Alessandro and wife Martina, Italian media reported.
Pino Bruno, the head of the company, was quoted by the Italian news agency Ansa as saying Gulotta’s wife had told him the family were walking through Las Ramblas when the van appeared. According to reports in Italian media, Gulotta knelt down to successfully shield their son, six, and daughter, seven months, from the attack. Martina, who was carrying their one-year-old daughter, Aria, in a sling-style baby-carrier, told friends that she had pulled Alessandro to safety at the last moment.
The family were on holiday in the Catalan city.
Gulotta worked in sales and marketing for computer company Tom’s Hardware. The company said his violent death had left his wife facing “trials no one should have to bear”.
“We put ourselves in the shoes of little Alessandro, who is about to start elementary school knowing his and his family’s life will never be the same again. And we think of baby Aria … who will never know her dad,” his colleagues said in a statement.
Luca Russo, Italy
Russo, 25, was on holiday with his girlfriend, Marta Scomazzon, who is among three injured Italians, having suffered fractures in the attack.
Scomazzon, whose parents have travelled to Barcelona to be with her, told the Italian news agency Ansa: “We were walking together and then the van hit us. I fell and realised that Luca wasn’t there any more. I didn’t see him again. His body was swept away.”
Russo’s sister Chiara posted images on Facebook of her smiling brother, alongside those of his body lying on the ground in Barcelona. “Help to bring him home, I beg you,’’ she wrote.
He had graduated last year in engineering and had just started his first job. He was from Marostica, a town in the northern Veneto region.
“Italy will remember Bruno Gulotta and Luca Russo and expresses its solidarity with their families,” the prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni, said in a tweet. “Freedom will triumph over barbarism and terrorism.”
Elke Vanbockrijck, BelgiumElke Vanbockrijck, Belgium
Vanbockrijck, 44, was reported to have been in the city on holiday with her husband and two sons, aged 11 and 14. Patrick Dewael, the mayor of Tongeren in Belgium, told Belgian radio that he had presided over her wedding in 2014.Vanbockrijck, 44, was reported to have been in the city on holiday with her husband and two sons, aged 11 and 14. Patrick Dewael, the mayor of Tongeren in Belgium, told Belgian radio that he had presided over her wedding in 2014.
Vanbockrijck regularly ferried her sons to football practice at KFC Heur Tongeren. A statement from the club said: “She was often at the club, and was committed to our club. We will always remember her as a happy woman, a caring mother and loving wife. Elke will be missed.”
Francisco López Rodríguez, SpainFrancisco López Rodríguez, Spain
Rodríguez, 57, is the first Spanish victim to be named in the Barcelona attack.Rodríguez, 57, is the first Spanish victim to be named in the Barcelona attack.
El País reported that he was one of three citizens to have been killed. He was originally from Granada and had been walking along Las Ramblas with his wife, who was seriously injured.El País reported that he was one of three citizens to have been killed. He was originally from Granada and had been walking along Las Ramblas with his wife, who was seriously injured.
Ian Moore Wilson, Canada
Wilson was on holiday in Barcelona with his wife of 53 years, Valerie.
Their daughter, Fiona, a staff sergeant in the Vancouver police department, issued a brief statement on Friday hailing the efforts of bystanders and emergency workers who cared for her mother and tried to save her father’s life, and thanking those who had offered their sympathy and support.
She said: “In 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.”
Sgt Wilson described her father as “compassionate, generous, adventurous, and always game for a lively debate, a good book, exploring new places, and a proper-sized pint”.