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The knife attack in western Finland that left two people dead and seven others wounded is "a likely terror act," Finland's intelligence agency said on Aug. 19, while police said Europol was investigating if it had any ties to deadly vehicle attacks in Spain.

The suspects in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils were planning one or more bigger attacks than those that were carried out, police say, reported BBC. 

Catalonia's police chief said blasts in a town south of Barcelona on Wednesday deprived the plotters of bomb material, forcing them to carry out simpler attacks using vehicles to ram crowds.

Ivica Dacic sent a telegram of condolences to Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis, in the wake of the terror attack in Barcelona that killed 13.

The death toll of the attacks in Spain has risen to 14 people The Guardian reported, two of them have been named: Bruno Gulotta, a father of two, with and 44-year-old Elke Vanbockrijck from the Belgian town of Tongeren.

Earlier the officials have reported for 13 dead victims. 

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said more international co-operation is needed to prevent terrorist attacks after suspected Islamists killed at least 13 people and injured over 100 in Barcelona in two separate attacks on Thursday.

Several pro-Isis social media channels put out messages in Spanish such as "Kill the Spanish pigs" and users changed their profile pictures to Driss Oukabir, a suspect in custody, reported The Independent. 

At the height of Europe's recent migration crisis, more than 7,000 people landed every day at the Greek islands that face Turkey. Orange life vests covered the beaches of northern Lesvos while multiplying numbers of new arrivals slept in fields and at the island's main port.

That was the fall of 2015.

Spanish police say they have killed five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils in a second vehicle attack, after an earlier one in Barcelona, reported BBC. 

The men, wearing explosive belts, were linked to the first attack, police say.

Spain announced three days of public mourning due to the terrorist attack that occurred in Barcelona, RİA Novosti reported, quoted by Trend News Agency. 

A van plowed into crowds in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Thursday and a regional official said 13 people were killed in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has sent a letter of condolences to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, on the occasion of a terrorist attack in Barcelona.

"I was shaken by the news of a terrorist attack in Barcelona, where innocent people were killed and a large number of people were injured," Brnabic wrote, according to the Serbian government.