Police Evacuate Las Ramblas Area After Barcelona Van Attack

The Interior Ministry confirmed at least 13 people were killed and dozens were injured after a van plowed into pedestrians in the shopping area of Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain.

Bystanders and emergency services tended to injured people on the sidewalk in the aftermath of the incident, which Catalonia’s Department of the Interior confirmed on Twitter was a “terror attack”.

This uploader filmed police helping evacuate people from the Las Ramblas area. He posted that the video showed “hostages being released,” but the police later tweeted that there were no people inside the bar where they arrested one man. Credit: Twitter/Vil_Music via Storyful