Police have shot a knifeman shouting Allahu Akbar who tried to attack them at a station near Barcelona early this morning.
The drama happened around 6am at a police station in Cornella on the outskirts of the Catalan capital.
Regional Mossos d'Esquadra police said in a tweet: '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.'
But officers declined to confirm reports the knifeman had been killed.
Local reports said the man was a 29-year-old of Algerian origin and had shouted Allahu Akbar - God is great.
An officer who was in the reception area of the police station is said to have shot him.
A Mossos d'Esquadra spokeman said she could not confirm he had been killed but local reports said emergency services had failed in their attempts to revive him when they reached the scene.
The incident happened just three days after the anniversary of the devastating terrorist attack in Barcelona's Las Ramblas.
Moroccan Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, used a rented van to mow down and kill 22 people including British-born Julian Cadman, seven, in Barcelona's famous Las Ramblas on August 17 last year.
Police shot dead Younes in vineyards in Subirats an hour's drive west of Barcelona after he went on the run following the Barcelona massacre. He was later buried in an unmarked grave in a funeral held in secret in his homeland.
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