Some eyewitnesses have recounted
how the attack on Las Ramblas boulevard, Barcelona, happened.
The attack happened around 5:00
pm (1500 GMT), on Thursday when a vehicle slammed into a crowd of pedestrians
on the famous city.
The city centre is one of the
city’s busiest streets, normally thronged with tourists and street performers
until well into the night.
Witnesses described scenes of
chaos and panic, with bodies littered along the boulevard as others fled for
their lives.
One of the witnesses, Tom
Gueller, who lives on a road next to Las Ramblas told the BBC he saw the van
speeding along the boulevard.
He said, “It wasn ’t slowing down
at all. It was just going straight through the middle of the crowds in the
middle of the Ramblas,” he was referring to the pedestrianised area.
Regional interior minister
Joaquim Forn also said at least 13 people had died and more than 50 were
injured in the attack.
Belgium’s Foreign Minister Didier
Reynders revealed via Twitter that a Belgian national was among those killed in
Barcelona.
He identified the victim as a
woman.
Also, the Dutch Foreign Ministry
said in a statement that three Dutch citizens had been injured in the attack
and were “in contact with their relatives.
“They are out of danger and have
been taken to a hospital.”
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