in essence whoever was in that restaurant is still in that restaurant, authorities are speaking with them. to call it a hostage situation seems prudent. we know if they are armed, we don t know if any shots have been fired. authorities have set up a wide court and their and have largely evacuated the area. for the moment at least there will not be live reporting from that scene. needless to say they are looking for those, i told you of another man some 40 miles away, our level of certitude about its involvement in this attack is about medium, frankly right now. but authorities are the ones who reported this van found about 4. we will know when we know. let s bring in an american student in barcelona who says he heard the crash, where were you? i was in the center, we were
leaders in barcelona, what are your thoughts about what you have seen taking place today? individuals deciding with no regard for human life to drive a van into people who were just out shopping on a sunny summer s day. is a very delicate situation, what will be next. no one nothing is safe. we are very concerned. shepard: i want to get to trace gallagher, who has no information on the terror attacks that happened. we were initially saying 5:30 local time, instead it was more like 4:30 local time, two hours ago now. three hours ago on the dodge, actually. what do you have?
are fewer people in the area potentially to get caught up in it. shepard: that s sky news in the u.k. with the latest synopsis of what we ve seen today, while he was speaking, the authorities are out with official numbers for this moment. officially out of barcelona, one killed, 32 injured, police searching for the driver who escaped on foot. that said, media outlet after media outlet are reporting 13 dead, including our sister network sky news in the united kingdom. in addition, one local hospital reports as many as 50 people have come to that hospital. finding out exactly what the numbers are at this moment is impossible but reports are widespread and from authorities of these two gunmen hold up inside a turkish restaurant where it has been described as hostages.
rental emblem. this man was mowing through pedestrians on a very busy summer evening in august in barcelona. an extremely busy tourist area, las romblas. if you ve been to barcelona you have no doubt been there. local reports out of the region indicate this ban van went as s two or three city blocks crashing into person after person. there is a video we are working to doctor from this, it shows the faces of some of those who have been killed and injured and local media have requested that we do not show that until we have it blocked, we will have it in just a matter of moments, our video department is working on it. to some eyewitness reports from the scene are beyond disturbing, quoting we heard gunshots, there was screaming and shoutin shouting said man in a bakery. another group took refuge with him. he told the bbc a very large
the vans. there is a great deal of confusion, police in barcelona are communicating to the best of their ability, no doubt. but some latest video on sky news, let s go to that. you can see authorities in these alleys around la rombla, let s listen now, sky news has new information. the many thousands of people that would normally be there, we heard from an eyewitness that confirmed it was a van that was driven approximately 150 meters down the pedestrian part of the center and initially, subsequently we got messages about this for a second white man that was one rented by thee person as the initial van, that has been disputed on spanish media as well.