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Article snippet: LONDON — A Belgian mother was killed while on holiday with her husband and two young sons. So was an Italian father, as he held the hand of his 5-year-old son. An American died, as did a Spaniard, and among the injured, some seriously, were people from Australia, France, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Taiwan and Venezuela. The assailant who on Thursday steered a rented van down Las Ramblas, the storied shopping and tourist boulevard in Barcelona, struck down people from 34 countries around the world, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 80, many of them still unidentified. It was a gruesome and horrifying assault that quickly resonated across the globe, because the victims were citizens of the globe. Just as with previous European terrorist attacks in Paris, Nice and Brussels, the Barcelona carnage underscored how modern-day terrorism tends to be as international as it is indiscriminate. “They are trying to make a statement by attacking the West in general, and by attacking big, cosmopolitan, Western cities, they are striking at the heart of that,” said Raffaello Pantucci, director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute, a security-focused research institute in London. The driver of the white rented van raced down Las Ramblas, weaving and zigzagging to make sure to hit as many people as possible, many of them tourists. Barcelona is one of Europe’s most popular destinations, and Las Ramblas is one of Europe’s most famous streets... Link to the full article to read more