Police treating attempted assault in Catalonia as terrorist attack

Spanish police said on Monday they were treating as a terrorist attack an attempted assault on a police station near Barcelona by a man armed with a large knife who was then shot dead.

"Right now we are treating this as a terrorist attack," regional investigative police chief Rafel Comas told a news conference, adding that the attacker had said, "Allah is great".

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