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A man, wielding a knife and uttering the word “Allah” lunged at an officer in a police station near Barcelona, Spain, on Monday in what police said was a terrorist act, and was shot dead.
Police said the man entered the station in Cornella, in the northeastern region of Catalonia, shortly before 0400 GMT, seeking information.
He then leapt towards a female officer, brandishing a large knife, they said. The attacker, identified only as living in Cornella, was shot dead.

“The officer can only remember that he used the word Allah, the other words were incomprehensible,” regional investigating police chief Rafel Comas told a news conference. “On this evidence, for the moment, we are treating it as a terrorist attack.”
The Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) has often been used by jihadist attackers.
The attacker “wanted to die himself”, police added on Twitter.
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Comas did not confirm Spanish media reports that he was a 29-year-old Algerian, saying only that he had been in the country “for years”.
Forensic investigators and officers with dogs later searched the attacker’s house in Cornella, evacuating neighbouring houses as a precaution.
“With the information that we have right now we can say that it was an isolated event that targeted the police,” Catalan interior minister Miquel Buch said at a news conference when he was asked whether the attacker was part of a terrorist cell.

Buch added the situation had been dealt with.
Spain would maintain its security alert at level 4, one notch below the maximum level which signals an attack is imminent.
Last Friday, Barcelona commemorated the first anniversary of an Islamist assault in which a young man drove a van down a busy central boulevard, killing 14 people and injuring over 100 in Spain’s worst attack in more than a decade.
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Separately on Monday, three people were injured when a car mounted a pavement in the northern town of Casetas, in what a government spokeswoman later said was being treated as an accident.
The two occupants of the car fled the scene and were later detained.


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Attempted knife attack in Spanish police station treated as terrorist act

Officers take part in the search of the residential building where the attacker lived in Cornella, Spain. Photo: EPA-EFE

Catalan police officers cordon off the area near a police station, following an attack in Cornella de Llobregat near Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. Police in Barcelona say they have shot a man who attacked officers with a knife at a police station in the Spanish city, saying in a tweet Monday the attacked occurred just before 6 a.m. in the Cornella district of the city. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

epa06959508 Several fences block the access to a Catalan regional police Mossos d' Esquadra's station of the town Cornella de Llobregat, in Barcelona, after the police shot dead a man who entered in the building holding a knife and shouting 'Allah is great', northeastern Spain, early 20 August 2018. The policeman, who was on duty in the reception desk of the police station, fired at him. EPA-EFE/Enric Fontcuberta

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