Arab leaders condemned the Thursday (August 17th) terrorist attacks in Spain that left 14 dead and over 100 injured.
A driver ploughed a van into crowds of pedestrians on a busy avenue in Barcelona, just hours before a second such assault hit a nearby resort, AFP reported.
The "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) group's propaganda agency Amaq claimed one of its "soldiers" carried out the rampage in Barcelona.
"Saudi Arabia offers its sincerest condolences to the families of the victims and to the Spanish government," said a statement released by a source at the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
The Egyptian foreign ministry expressed Egypt's solidarity with the Spanish government and people against terrorism, stating that these attacks will not bend the will of governments or peoples in fighting terrorism, al-Ahram reported.
In a cable sent to Spanish Monarch Felipe VI, King Abdullah II of Jordan denounced the terrorist attack as "heinous", Jordan's Petra agency reported.
In the Barcelona incident, a white van sped down the popular Las Ramblas avenue packed full of tourists on Thursday afternoon, knocking people down and killing 13 in a scene of chaos and horror.
The driver left the vehicle on the busy boulevard lined with shops and restaurants, and fled on foot. Spanish police were still hunting him on Friday.
Then just eight hours later attackers struck again in the early hours of Friday morning, this time in the seaside resort of Cambrils where an Audi A3 car rammed into pedestrians, injuring six civilians and a police officer. One of the civilians later died.
Gunfire ensued during which police killed the five attackers.
Three other suspects have been arrested, including a Spaniard and a Moroccan, the police said.
