Barcelona police shoot knife attacker dead

Barcelona police say they are treating a man's knife attack on officers at a city police station as a terrorist incident.

Commissioner Rafel Comes, the second-in-command of the Barcelona police, told a news conference that police shot dead the man after he entered the premises on Monday and pulled out a knife.

Comes said the man shouted "Allah" and other words that police officers did not understand.

Te attacked occurred just before 6 a.m. local time Monday in the Cornella district on the outskirts of the city, local police said in a tweet.

But he said police found no evidence linking the incident to last year's terror attacks in Barcelona and nearby Cambrils, which killed 16 people.

Intelligence services are helping with the investigation.

- With Associated Press