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Terror attack victims include students, school staff and tourists celebrating reunion

Information about the victims in the deadly truck rampage in downtown Manhattan has started to emerge, with officials identifying the nationalities of some who died.

Argentina’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that five friends from the country — who were in town celebrating the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation — were among the dead.

Didier Reynders, deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister for Belgium, wrote on Twitter that at least one of the victims was Belgian.

“I am deeply saddened to announce a Belgian victim in Manhattan,” he tweeted. “I express my condolences to the family and friends.”

Reynders told the Belga news agency that the victim was “a woman from Roulers in western Flanders who was on a city trip with her sister and her mother.”

Tuesday’s terror attack left eight people dead and nearly a dozen injured.

The Argentinians who were killed were identified by officials on Twitter as Hernán Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damián Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi.

According to the Argentinian newspaper La Nacion, Erlij is a 48-year-old businessman and steel mill owner from the central Argentinian city of Rosario. He reportedly paid his friends’ way to the Big Apple so they could all be together for the anniversary.

The group graduated in 1987 from a polytechnic school. They arrived in New York several days ago with five others, officials said.

The pals who died had rented bicycles and reportedly were walking along the downtown Manhattan bike path near Stuyvesant High School when the terror attack unfolded.

“They were tourists,” Mateo Estrémé, consul general of Argentina to the United Nations, told The Post on Tuesday night.

“The were out cycling in downtown Manhattan,” he said. “We are trying to figure out how to go on — especially the families … [They] are completely lost about, well, being very far from their relatives. They don’t know what to do.”

Describing the high school friends who lived, Estrémé said: “They are devastated … They are still in shock because they cannot believe that this happened.”

Another Argentinian — identified as Martin Ludovico Marro — was also said to be among the injured. He remained hospitalized at New York Presbyterian on Tuesday night.

At least 11 people were hurt in the truck attack.

A spokesperson for Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña told The Post that two staff members and two students were among those who were wounded. They had been on a school bus, which was struck by suspected terrorist Sayfullo Saipov.

One of the students was said to be in critical condition.

Three other Belgians were also injured during the incident and “in the operating room” undergoing surgery Tuesday night. The extent of their injuries was not clear.

Countless people have been taking to social media to send prayers and condolences to the families of those who were hurt and killed in the attack.

“My thoughts, condolences and prayers to the victims and families of the New York City terrorist attack,” tweeted President Trump. “God and your country are with you!”

Former President Barack Obama wrote, “Michelle and I are thinking of the victims of today’s attack in NYC and everyone who keeps us safe. New Yorkers are as tough as they come.”

Additional reporting by Alex Taylor

With Post wires