Young Italian engineer dies next to his fiancee in Barcelona terror attack

The Italian foreign ministry identified the second Italian killed as Luca Russo, who was on holiday with his fiancée. She was injured but was not in serious condition.

He was from Bassano Grappa in the northern province of Treviso and worked at a company in Padua.

Both Luca and his girlfriend Marta Scomazzon were volunteers at the Green Cross, according to local police.

According to local media, he was 25 years old and was an engineering graduate.

His sister wrote an hour before he was identified as dead: "help me bring him home, please".

"We are born without bringing anything, we die without taking away anything. And in the middle we argue for something," was the last thing he posted on his Facebook page.

In 2015, after the Paris attacks, Luca Russo had posted a Eiffel tower, writing "peace" and "Religion is the opium of the people".

The President of Veneto, Luca Zaia, said: "Veneto loses one of its children.

"Memory can only return to the Bataclan attack, where our Valeria Solesin was barbarously killed".