Rest. Finally, after going at high speed down the road. Going onto the pavement. This is the street, you can see from those pictures how narrow and busy it is. These are the immediate moments after the van went down the street. A short while ago, a witness said that the van went past him and instantly, he knew from its speed, that there was something wrong. He heard banging as it rode onto the pavement and it hits stores. These are pictures from inside of shops as people ran for Safety A Nd Inside Of Shops as people ran for safety and were ushered away. Hundreds of people were there in the street. It was very busy at the time, lots of reports saying that the streets were thronged with people. You can see in those pictures people running outside as people try to rush away from where the van had hit people. Dozens of people are reported to have been hit by the van. Police are now saying that 15 people have now died but there are reports of 20 25 injured, also, by the van. Tom wheeler lives near where the attack took place, he told me what it was like in the moments as the van went past him. Lets hear again what he had to say. I left my flat, and was walking to las ramblas to go to the metro station. I was 15 or 20 metres from the end of my road and i heard screaming festival. Then, a couple of crashes. First of all. It mounted the pavement and knocked over all kinds of stores, and that is when i saw the Crowds Parting as there was a massive throng of people along las ramblas itself. The crowds we re along las ramblas itself. The crowds were parting and that is when i saw the van going at full speed down the middle of las ramblas. When i saw that it was not slowing down, i realise that there was something very, very wrong. So you actually saw the van itself travelling at speed . Yeah, yeah. How fast was it going . I would guess 50 mph but it is hard to tell. It was going fast. In sucha is hard to tell. It was going fast. In such a tight street it must have felt magnified, you must have known there was something wrong . As soon asi there was something wrong . As soon as i saw the velocity of it, i thought, this is an attack. It isnt just a slightly out of control van. Asi just a slightly out of control van. As i ran back to my flat, 50 metres away, it was traumatic. I ran into the shops, people were running into shops and bars, shutters were coming down. The police cordoned off the road entirely. And how busy was it in the streets before the attack . Road entirely. And how busy was it in the streets before the attack7m is packed, it is always packed. Some are in barcelona is the ultimate tourist attraction. It is difficult walking out pace Down Las Ramblas because there is always people around, it is so busy. It is strange, five or ten minutes after, i heard another big bang. I dont know what it was, i did not know whether it was a bomb or Something Like that. There were more screens, it could have easily been someone putting down their shutters forcefully but there was another bang. There were a few people who started running away again. Right now, my road is completely cordoned off. You know, it is such a Densely Populated Street in terms of the amount of people along las ramblas, in the space of 20 metres. At pace, you could easily hit 30 people. People were running out of the way, you heard screaming, and. There was not time for people to get out of the way because of the velocity. Did you say you were back in your flat . What is clear is that catalan police, i reading this from my screen here, Reuters News Agency reporting that they are still looking for the driver of the van. Is it clear looking from your window this operation is still ongoing . Absolutely, armed police are stationed on my road right now. There are helicopters above. It makes sense that there is still someone makes sense that there is still someone out as nobody is allowed anywhere right now. There are police on the cord. All of the shops have their shutters down. I can see where their shutters down. I can see where the cord and is at the end of my road. There are people gathered there. Cordon. Its one of those things, you never think that it will happen to you, its a mean that you will never see. Especially in barcelona. I dont know. When i moved here, ithought, at least barcelona. I dont know. When i moved here, i thought, at least you do not have terrorism in spain. 0ther do not have terrorism in spain. Other then eta, it is such a happy place here, barcelona, and for this kind of thing to happen, it contrasts with what it stands for, you know . Our corresponded Richard Galpin is monitoring several sources and every strand of information coming in. What can you tell us . Spanish media are reporting, we do not have confirmation, that 13 people have been killed and a significant number of people injured. We do not have direct confirmation of that so far. What we do know is that the van ploughed through a large number of people. Video shows that and it is evidence that people were on the ground receiving treatment. Police say that the driver fled. The metro stations and Train Stations were closed, trying to find this person. There is now less information, what we were hearing about two armed men being hauled up in a bar somewhere around the area. We do not have more information on that but we do expect a News Conference in from police in the area. As you say that, that News Conferences currently going on. Let me bring you up to date with what police on the ground are saying. They have just said that in terms of numbers they are releasing at the moment, apologies, that is where the line of the News Conference was coming into us from. They say that it is significant. 0ne coming into us from. They say that it is significant. One person has been killed and 32 injured. So there isa been killed and 32 injured. So there is a mismatch in terms of what has been reported earlier. Locally, reports of 13 People Killed but police, in terms of their News Conference, this hasjust happened, i will repeat it, a significant change in such a Fluid Situation, Police Reporting that one person has died and 32 people have been injured. We will try and have that news c0 nfe re nce injured. We will try and have that News Conference translated and bring you all of the detail in the next few moments. Richard, it is still an ongoing operation . Absolutely, the van driver apparently fled so they will still be looking for at least one person. There are reports of this ongoing situation inside of a bar, where apparently there were reports of armed men inside of a bar. There is no confirmation of that but clearly there is a Massive Police operation and a large number of armed Police Across the whole area. They are obviously in a high state of alert. It does not seem this incident is at an end at the moment. Thank you. An additional line from catalan police, they say of the 32 people injured ten are seriously injured. That News Conference just completed. We will try to bring you more in a couple of moments. Rees richard is in barcelona and he witnessed some of the events today. Thank you for joining us, can you tell us what you experienced . I was shopping with my girlfriend, and a van was at the top of las ramblas, where the impact happened. I turned around, to see what was going on. People started screaming and police were scrambling down the road. I looked over, i had a closer look and i could see that there was someone a closer look and i could see that there was someone lying on the ground, with a Police Officer performing cpr. There was another next to that person. I did not think anything of it. Ijust thought somebody had dropped down from a heart attack, and then with all of the things that happened with london and across europe, with these van attacks, i thought, and across europe, with these van attacks, ithought, maybe and across europe, with these van attacks, i thought, maybe this has happened . Panic began to and people we re happened . Panic began to and people were running. There were more and more police. We were ushered into a make up store. Just to take safety. The doors were shut upon us. After that, half an hour later we were out. We started to head away from the centre. There were armed police going past, a helicopter in the air. Im about to go through a tunnel so i may lose signal. Then, we went through a toll station and there we re through a toll station and there were armed police there, checking ca rs were armed police there, Checking Cars for possible suspects. Can you tell me, you mentioned seeing the casualties on the ground by that stage, was the van anywhere in your side . All had it continued its journey at high speed further down the street . I did not see any van at all, if i saw it i would have known what happened but i did not see any van at all. And tell me, what is happening now . We were hearing a little earlier that the operation is still going on, as they try to search for the people who actually did this . We just passed through a toll station with armed police and they are Checking Cars. I assume for possible suspects. In barcelona, as we we re possible suspects. In barcelona, as we were walking away from the centre, there were helicopters and police everywhere you could luck. Honestly, everywhere you could luck. Sirens going off, and a general sense of panic. Your line is going in and out so i will lead you there but thank you for giving me that information, in terms of what you have gone through today. I spoke to john ward a short while ago, let me give you the latest information from him. He says that he can now see, you will remember that he was overlooking where the ban was, he can see police going door to door, opening and questioning those inside of shops and restaurants, bringing out shop owners in some cases, and escorting more people away. That operation that we have been describing as ongoing is clearly still happening there on the ground, as they move further and further down the cordoned off area, trying to get people safe, and of course they are looking for at least two perpetrators. I will be back with Richard Galpin with more of the latest information but in the last four while i spoke to shelby from bristol, who was in a market near the scene of the attack. This is what she described seeing. We were ina what she described seeing. We were in a market. It is a long las ramblas. We were up on the main street but we stopped to look at some cakes in a bakery then suddenly, there was screaming and hundreds of people ran towards us, screaming and running. We ran into the bakery and ran up the stairs to hide. As we looked out of the window people were running through the market, hundreds and hundreds of people. They were running through the market and shutters were coming down. Lots of screaming and lots of running. We waited a few minutes and it seemed to calm down and we were told that we could go out. We went back into the market and a second wave hit. We were told it was not safe and we had to get back inside. Police swept through the market with guns. From where we were we could see through the market, and there we re see through the market, and there were about seven Police Officers with guns, surrounding a doorway. Thats the point where we just hate under the tables, and upstairs in the bakery. We werejust under the tables, and upstairs in the bakery. We were just waiting. There was a Woman Waiting and she ran Off Las Ramblas, saying that she heard gunshots. We were there about 40 heard gunshots. We were there about a0 minutes, ithink heard gunshots. We were there about a0 minutes, i think a heard gunshots. We were there about a0 minutes, ithinka hiding. Then we we re a0 minutes, ithinka hiding. Then we were told it was safe to come out but we had to move away from the area. It sounds incredibly frightening . We are still a little shaky, to be honest. You know, people around us are going back to normal a little more now but the tourists are very shaken up, i think. And certainly, what we are reading and what we are seeing, from local authorities and reports from the scene, that clearly this is not over, as they still try and find the perpetrator, or perpetrators, of this attack . Thats what we believe, what we have managed to work out. There are police and ambulance is still on the street, and an ambulance above us. We are told it is not yet over. And in terms of the area where the police are, how large is the area where the Security Operation is going on . It seems to be quite a large area. We are not among the main street any more, so i cannot give any detailed information on it. But there is a high Police Visibility and roads are shut. The gates to the market are shut, the metro is shut. They are clearing everybody out the area. Give me an idea as to how busy it was at the time . The pictures we saw in the immediate aftermath, it looks very busy . It is so busy, much busier than yesterday, actually. Its a bit ofa than yesterday, actually. Its a bit of a surprise. There were hundreds of a surprise. There were hundreds of people, very busy. Those are the pictures of the van in the centre of the screen as we ended hearing from that latest eyewitness. Before i ask richard the next question, it is worth returning to what we heard from police. They clarify figures, no surprise, in a Fluid Situation like this, that the numbers have changed. They say that one person has died, 32 injured and ten seriously injured. But, one would fully expect for that to change again potentially in the coming minutes. Richard has been following things. Just to put this in perspective, we have seen attacks in several european countries. The uk, france and belgium, but not in spain for the last few years . Not since 200a when there was a very serious attack, almost 200 people were killed and many hundreds injured in the madrid train bombings. In 200a, it happened just before the general election and the belief was it was carried out by an alqaeda cell, or an alqaeda inspired group of people. It was a very serious attack and since then, as far as i have been aware, there havent been any major attacks, not carried out by islamist militants. And in recent times, we saw the van in those pictures, but that has become a weapon used by terrorists in their attacks . We have seen it in several different cities and it is so difficult to defend yourself from . It has become a weapon of choice. We do not know who was behind the attack. Certainly, we know that Islamic State and some other hard core ms Islamic State and some other ha rd core ms bacha Islamic State and some other hard core ms bacha khan militant groups, hard core islamist militant groups, they have used these as weapons as they are easy to get hold of, and you can cause a huge amount of damage. We have seen every pattern, over the last year, you go back to the horrific attack in nice, when more than 80 people we re in nice, when more than 80 people were killed in july in nice, when more than 80 people were killed injuly of last year, right the way through berlin and stockholm, and paris, and is now in london, two attacks using vehicles. What was interesting is that there was an eyewitness saying that he thought that he saw the van veering from left to right. That is also a hallmark of these attacks that we have seen in the past where they try and hit as many people as possible. Thats just one eyewitness, not totally reliable, so that is one thing that we thought we have seen. Some pictures of armed police, we have heard how they are moving from street to street, as they are looking for the perpetrators. You can see on the screen, you have heavily armed response, as they are looking for the people who have carried this out. That is going on. For intelligence services, in moments like this, in the immediate hours afterwards, they are dealing with so much. All of those questions about whether they have missed things, they will come later. At the moment they are trying to find out how many perpetrators there are and if there are more coming. Their First Priority is to protect civilians, so if they are worried, the perpetrators of this attack are still at large, that is the top priority and they will be devoting as many resources as they possibly can to that. Large numbers of armed police on the streets. My instinct is that there have been armed guards and police in buildings for some time now. There was some concern about potential attacks, given what happened in the rest of western europe. It is obviously now flooded with armed police. And security services, intelligence agencies, they will be working very hard. Looking at lists of people potentially who will be suspects, they have a list of people who they believe may have been radicalised, for example. They will be working really ha rd. For example. They will be working really hard. Some of the questions they will be turning their rete ntions they will be turning their retentions turning their attentions to. Exactly what we heard, john ward, reporting. We saw those pictures from him of armed Police Moving down his street. Lets go back to las ramblas, john lives on that street. Thank you, tell me more about what you have seen in the last little while after mark since i last little while after mark since i last spoke to you, things around the van are fairly quiet. There was an initial burst of excitement. The place right in front of me is still in lockdown. There was a heavy police presence. What they have been doing is going from establishment to establishment, knocking on doors and knocking on shutters. People have opened the shutters and have been brought out onto the street. 0nce opened the shutters and have been brought out onto the street. Once it is established that they are not the people they are looking for, they have been escorted away from this particular area.