At to the lowest degree thirteen people were killed together with over l injured Th when a driver ploughed a van into pedestrians on a busy street inwards Barcelona pop amongst tourists, the region's interior government minister said.
"We tin confirm in that place are thirteen dead together with to a greater extent than than l injured," Joaquim Forn tweeted.
Catalan constabulary tweeted that "there are someone victims together with injured from the crash" without specifying numbers.
A Barcelona-based paper is reporting at to the lowest degree ane is dead together with twenty are injured afterward a van jumped a sidewalk inwards Las Ramblas, slamming into pedestrians.
At to the lowest degree v were seen lying on the solid put down on the pop tourist street. El Pais newspaper, citing unnamed constabulary sources, says the 2 perpetrators are holed upwardly inwards a bar inwards primal Barcelona.
The paper says that Barcelona constabulary are treating the van crash every bit a terror attack. Some local media bring reported bursts of gunfire.
Barcelona police, inwards a tweet, told people to remain away from the centre of the urban substance because of a "large contingent of safety forces together with emergency services" deployed inwards the area.
In a photograph shown past times world broadcaster RTVE, 3 people were lying on the solid put down inwards the street of the northern Castilian urban substance on Th afternoon, evidently beingness helped past times constabulary together with others.
Videos of the scene recorded people screaming every bit they fled. Police cordoned off the broad, pop street, ordering stores together with nearby Metro together with prepare stations to close.
A helicopter hovered over the scene.
AP