ROME, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- Three Italians were killed in Thursday's terrorist attack in Barcelona, local media updated Saturday.
The third Italian victim was identified early on Saturday as 80-year-old Carmen Lopardo, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
She was from the southern Basilicata region, had been living in Argentina for the past 60 years, and was in Barcelona as a tourist, ANSA quoted the Argentine Foreign Ministry as saying.
The other two Italian victims are Stefano Gulotta from the northern town of Legnano and Luca Russo, a native of the northern town of Bassano del Grappa.
On Friday afternoon, a terrorist knife attack in the Finnish city of Turku left two people dead and eight injured. ANSA reported on Saturday that an Italian national is among those wounded in Turku.
A total of 14 fatalities occurred in two terrorist attacks in the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Cambrils that also hurt about 126 people of 34 different nationalities.
Thirteen people were killed on Thursday afternoon in the popular Las Ramblas area of Barcelona when a white van zigzagged at high speed down the busy avenue thronged with tourists, knocking down pedestrians.
On early Friday morning, the fourteenth victim, a woman, was stabbed when five people jumped out of a car and began attacking people at random on the seaside promenade in Cambrils, a town south of Barcelona. Spanish police gunned down all five attackers. The woman died at hospital later on Friday. Six others were also injured in the attack.
Also on Saturday, the Italian Interior Ministry announced that two Moroccan and one Syrian national have been deported for security reasons. This brings to 202 the deportations of suspected religious extremists as of January 2015, ANSA reported.
Italy's unusual policy of preventive deportation of individuals for extremist sympathies has been credited as being among the reasons why unlike other European countries it has not so far suffered terrorist attacks.
Also on Saturday, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni wrote in an editorial published on ilSussidiario.net online newspaper that "we must choose dialogue and inclusion" in order to preserve "our priceless heritage of values, ideas, and laws".
This heritage is "the basis of our living together and the fruit of many conquests, which we do not intend to give up", Gentiloni wrote ahead of a meeting on Sunday of lay Catholic movement Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation), where the Italian prime minister is to be the keynote speaker.
"Moving towards a more open and multiethnic society must not mean giving up on our security and our lifestyle," Gentiloni wrote.
Preserving this heritage "does not mean choosing the politics of nostalgia, or of walls and fear," Gentiloni wrote.
"We must respond ... by guaranteeing security and protection, recalling that true progress is that which places people's quality of life at the center," the Italian prime minister wrote.
Gentiloni wrote the op-ed before the Spain attacks, the online paper specified.
