A woman injured in a terrorist attack in Barcelona has died. Death toll rises to 16

In Barcelona, ​​a 51-year-old woman died in a hospital after being injured in a terrorist attack in Barcelona on August 17. She became the 16th victim of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.

The deceased was a German citizen, reports the Associated Press.

About 25 victims remain in hospitals, of which five are in critical condition.

• On August 17-18, two terrorist attacks took place in Spanish Catalonia, which, according to the investigation, were organized by one terrorist cell. First, a man in a van hit more than a hundred people on a pedestrian street in the center of Barcelona. A few hours later at night, five criminals attacked pedestrians in Cambrils (a city more than a hundred kilometers from Barcelona).
• Among the 16 dead, 14 were among pedestrians hit in the center of Barcelona. Fleeing from the crime scene, the terrorist stole a car, killing its driver. Another woman died after an attack in Cambrils.
• The police consider the organizers of the attack a group, most of whose members lived in the city of Ripoll. The ideologist of the attacks was allegedly the imam of the local mosque. According to preliminary data, he could have died on the eve of the attack in an explosion in a house where the terrorists were trying to make bombs.