RELATIVES of a seven-year-old British-Australian boy believed to be missing after the Barcelona terror attack have flown to Spain to be with his mother.
Julian Alessandro Cadman’s father and grandmother travelled from Australia following an appeal for information about the boy’s whereabouts. Grandfather Tony Cadman has urged people to share a photograph of Julian on Facebook.
He wrote: "My grandson, Julian Alessandro Cadman, is missing. Please like and share. We have found Jom (my daughter in law) and she is (in a) serious but stable condition in hospital.
"Julian is seven years old and was out with Jom when they were separated, due to the recent terrorist activity. Please share if you have family or friends in Barcelona."
However, an official Catalonia police Twitter account said last night that they were not searching for a missing child and that all the victims and injured have been located.
On Saturday the Philippines government said a seven-year-old child who is missing following the attack is the son of a 43-year-old Filipino woman who had been living in Australia.
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Sarah Arriola said the woman was with her son in Barcelona to attend the wedding of a cousin from the Philippines.
Arriola said the woman, who was seriously injured, became separated from her child in the attack, and her British husband is headed to Barcelona to try to find his son.
After Cadman made a plea for information, Prime Minister Theresa May said UK authorities were "urgently looking into reports" that a child, who has dual British nationality, is missing.
Yesterday Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, without naming the child, asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing in the wake of the attack. He said the boy's mother was badly injured and is in hospital.
"All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona," Turnbull added.
At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the terror attacks in Spain. Citizens of 34 countries were caught up in the atrocities including England, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, France and China. Among the dead are Bruno Gulotta, a 35-year-old Italian who was on holiday with his partner and two children; Elke Vanbockrijck, a 44-year-old Belgian, who was in Barcelona with her husband and two sons; Luca Russo, a 25-year-old Italian believed to have been in the city with his girlfriend; Californian Jared Tucker, 42, who was reportedly on an anniversary trip with his wife; Canadian Ian Moore Wilson and Spaniard Pepita Codina.
Authorities have so-far identified those killed in the Barcelona attack as two Italians, one Portuguese, three Spanish, one Spanish-Argentine, a Belgian, an American and a Canadian.
The victim of the second assault in Cambrils has been identified as Spanish woman Ana Maria Suarez, 61.
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