Death toll from Spain terror attacks rises to 14

ISTANBUL (AA) - The death toll from Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Spain has risen to 14, according to local emergency services.

The fourteenth victim was a female, according to the Catalan authorities on Friday. She was one of at least seven people injured in an attack in Cambrils town, close to Barcelona in the early hours of Friday.

Spanish police shot and killed five suspected terrorists in an operation after the attackers drove a vehicle into a crowd.

The incident in Cambrils followed another deadly vehicle attack in central Barcelona in which a Turkish national was among over 100 people wounded.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday 26 French were among those injured in Thursday’s terror attack, 11 of them seriously.

Police say they have made three arrests in connection to the attacks, but the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack is still believed to be on the run.

A minute’s silence was held in Barcelona earlier on Friday, attended by Spain’s Felipe VI and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

Security across several Spanish cities has been tightened.

According to local media, police are searching for a man named Moussa Oukabir, believed to be the brother of Driss Oukabir one of those suspects arrested in Ripoll, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Barcelona.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered his condolences to King Felipe on Thursday following the attacks which he said “showed the brutal face of terrorism once again”.