Thursday, August 17, 2017
BARCELONA, Spain (AP)
The police force for Spain’s Catalonia region says a car knocked down two police officers at a traffic checkpoint in Barcelona.
The Mossos d’Esquadra force did not indicate if the incident was related to the van attack in the city’s Las Ramblas district on today that left 12 people dead and dozens injured.
Barcelona police later said in a tweet that the car and its driver were intercepted about 10 kilometers (6 miles) outside of the downtown area where the original attack happened.
Local media reports said a white Ford Focus ran over the officers and that a person from the car was shot and killed by regional troopers.
Neither the city nor regional police have said whether a suspect was shot.