Spanish security forces fire on suspicious truck
Spanish police said yesterday they fired on a truck loaded with butane gas bottles which was driving the wrong way down a road in Barcelona, managing to stop it and detain the Swedish driver. “We detained a person who was of Swedish nationality,” a spokesman for police in the popular Spanish Mediterranean resort city said. Barcelona’s city hall said the small white truck-which had dozens of orange gas bottles stacked on the back in plain view-had been stolen. There was no indication as yet whether this was an attempted attack or just a plain robbery. Mireia Ruiz, a woman who saw the truck from her home nearby, said the driver ignored people screaming at him to stop as he sped down the wrong side of a ring road. “When people shouted at him, he would laugh and make offensive gestures with his hand,” she said. Police did not say whether there were any injuries.