7-year-old Fil-Brit boy missing after Barcelona attack
A man looks at flags, messages and candles placed after van attack that killed at least 13, in central Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. Police on Friday shot and killed five people carrying bomb belts who were connected to the Barcelona van attack, as the manhunt intensified for the perpetrators of Europe’s latest rampage claimed by the Islamic State group. AP/Manu Fernandez
BARCELONA, Spain — The government says a child missing after a vehicle plowed into pedestrians in Barcelona is the 7-year-old son of a Filipino woman who had been living in Australia.
The Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Sarah Arriola said in a statement on Saturday that the 43-year-old Filipino woman was seriously injured in Thursday’s attack. She had been based in Australia for the past three or four years.
Arriola says the woman and her son were in Barcelona to attend the wedding of a cousin from the Philippines.
Arriola says the woman’s British husband is en route to Barcelona to help find his son. Arriola says the boy was separated from his mother during the attack.
Australia's prime minister has urged people to pray for the child.
Among thoe injured were a Filipino and his five-year-old child were among those injured in the terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
The DFA did not release the names of the victims, but said the Philippine honorary consul went to the hospital to check on their condition.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano expressed condolences to the Spanish government and condemned the terrorist attack in Barcelona that left 14 people dead and over a hundred injured.
“The Philippines condemns in the strongest terms this disturbing act of terror perpetrated by extremists against innocent men, women and children in Barcelona,” Cayetano said in a statement. — Reports from the Associated Press and the STAR
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