A man who was allegedly attempting to attack police officers with a knife has been shot dead near Barcelona.
The incident happened this morning - shortly before 6am local time - at a police station in Cornellà, a district on the outskirts of the Catalan city.
Police said the suspect approached an officer with a 'large knife'.
In comments quoted by the Reuters news agency, local police official Rafel Comas told reporters: "However you look at it, it was a knife attack against an officer [by a man who] shouted 'Allah is great' and other things that were impossible to make out.
"For now, we are treating it as a terrorist attack."
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Police added that the suspect lived nearby, and had been in the country 'for years'.
Mr Comes added that officers had found identification documents on the suspect, and had requested a warrant to search his apartment.
Today's incident comes only days after Barcelona marked the first anniversary of the terror attacks in Spain last August, which left 16 people dead - most of whom died after a van rammed into pedestrians in the Las Ramblas area of Barcelona.
Additional reporting by IRN
