First lady Melania Trump sent her “thoughts and prayers” to Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday after a van drove through a crowd in a busy tourist section of the city, leaving multiple people dead.
“Thoughts and prayers to #Barcelona,” the first lady tweeted, the first condolence statement from the White House.
Thoughts and prayers to #Barcelona
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) August 17, 2017
Graphic video from the scene showed bodies lying on the ground after the vehicle drove through Barcelona’s historic Las Ramblas district, a heavily pedestrian area. Police said they are investigating the incident as terrorism.
A White House official said just prior to the first lady’s tweet that White House chief of staff John Kelly was “aware of the situation and keeping the president abreast.”
