Police have shot a man who shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he tried to attack officers near
Barcelona this morning.
Officers fired at the knifeman around 6 am this morning, at a police station in
Cornella, just outside the Catalan capital.
The 29-year-old man of Algerian origins allgedly shouted "Allahu Akbar", according to newspaper El Pais, before attempting to attack officers.
The regional Mossos d’Esquadra police confirmed the incident, but decline to comment he had been killed.
They wrote on Twitter: “A man armed with a knife has accessed the police station in Cornella this morning with the aim of attacking officers.
“He has been taken out.
“The incident happened just before 6am this morning.”
An officer at the reception of the police station is said to have pulled the trigger on the man.
Emergency services arrived at the scene but were unable to save the attacker, who died shortly after.
The incident comes just three days after the anniversary of terror attacks that hit Barcelona's Las Ramblas.
On 17 August 2017, Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, of Moroccan descent killed 22 people after running them over with a rented van, including a 7-year-old British boy, Julian Cadman.
He was shot dead by police who tracked him down in vineyards in Subiras, an hour away from the terror attack.
The attacker was later buried in an unmarked grave during a secret funeral held at his local hometown.