Argentina on Wednesday mourned five victims of the bike path terror attack near the World Trade Center, all who were part of a group of friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation with a trip to New York City.

The victims were among eight friends celebrating the anniversary of their 1987 graduation from the Polytechnic School of Rosario, Argentina, with a U.S. trip to New York and Boston, near where one of their classmates lives.

The Argentine foreign ministry identified them as Ariel Erlij, Hernan Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damian Pagnucco, and Hernan Ferruchi. The ministry said another classmate, Martin Ludovico Marro of the Boston area, was recovering at Manhattan’s Presbyterian Hospital.

YWN has confirmed earlier reports that one of the victims were Jewish is incorrect.

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The trip was paid for by Erlij, the chief executive of Ivanar, an Argentine steel products manufacturing company, according to Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper. Several other victims were architects.

In Rosario, a minute of silence was observed at the high school, and the light-blue and white Argentina flag was flown at half-staff.

“It hurts us to think that people that these are people who walked the same school halls as we did or that studied in our same classrooms,” Agustin Riccardi, a senior at the school, told The Associated Press.

President Mauricio Macri said Wednesday that the attacks have “hit all Argentines hard,” that “there’s no place for gray areas” and that everyone must be committed from “head to toe” in the fight against terrorism.

“Five of the victims were from Rosario — young entrepreneurs, members of the city’s society. I imagine they had beautiful families,” Macri said during a public event in Buenos Aires.

Argentina’s consul in New York, Mateo Estreme, told La Capital newspaper in Rosario that the four survivors in the group are in a state of shock. Only days earlier, before flying to the U.S., they had posed for a group photo, all of them wearing T-shirts with the word “Libre,” or Free.

“Four died at the scene and another young man died when he was taken away by an ambulance,” Jose Nunez, a national deputy who was a friend of several of the men, told La Nacion.

8 were killed and 11 wounded in the attack. Two others killed were American, authorities said, while another victim was identified as a Ann-Laure Decadt, a Belgian mother of two who died Tuesday night at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to a statement from her husband, Alexander Naessens.

The surviving wounded Argentinian lives in the Chestnut Hill area of Newton, near Boston. Last week, he hosted a fundraiser for a local Republican candidate that was attended by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker. Photos of Marro and his wife posing with Baker were posted to Facebook.

Tom Mountain, a local GOP official and Marro’s friend, attended the fundraiser at his home. He described Marro as “one of the nicest guys you’d ever want to meet” and said he is “very intertwined with the local Argentinian community.” Marro described his trip to New York as a routine social event with friends, he said.

“It was simply a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mountain said.

פיגוע הדריסה בניו יורק: אחד מ-5 ההרוגים הארגנטינאים הוא יהודי בשם אריאל ארליך (דני מולכו)

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