A police officer shot dead a man armed with a knife as he tried to attack a police station in Catalonia on Monday, just days after the one-year anniversary of a twin attack in the northern Spanish region that killed 16 people.
“We are treating it as a terrorist attack. The officer used her gun to save her own life,” Rafel Comes, a commissioner with the Catalan regional police, told a news conference in Cornella de Llobregat where the attack took place.
The man arrived at the police station in the town near Barcelona at 5:45 am (0345 GMT) with a knife and “a clearly premeditated desire to kill an agent of our force,” he added, saying security was being reinforced at police stations across Catalonia.
Police treating Spain knife assault as ‘terrorist attack’
Updated 20 August 2018
Police treating Spain knife assault as ‘terrorist attack’
- Police say the man “intended to attack police officers”
- The attack happened at about 6a.m. local time
