we only have one name so far from the police, driss oubakir, who they say rented the van involved, butnd us, in the last few hours, many in the city have been frightened because there we re have been frightened because there were rumours about gun men, about a possible hostage. many. in fact, many said hostage crisis was happening in a restaurant and it is ongoing and they have big guns, two of them. none of this has turned out to be true. so as you can imagine, a situation like this, notjust word of mouth but on social media, things get out and they are not true and they are unconfirmed and it creates more fear in the population and you couple that with the pictures that we re couple that with the pictures that were released and many have seen them. very horrifying images of people on the ground bleeding, some seemed to be unconscious. exactly in the middle of las ramblas, where thousands of people walk by, they know this spot, so that adds to the feeling and the reality that this might be an ongoing situation. it hasn't ended and there's the possibility of something else happening, h

. —— a man called driss oubakir.aid he rented the van in the incident, an incident they are saying is a terrorist attack, and the police are saying this man is in custody. so more about him in the next few hours. we have been talking to eyewitnesses throughout the last few hours. tom lives near to where the attack happened and talk to us about what he saw in the minutes that followed that attack.|j what he saw in the minutes that followed that attack. i had left my flat and i was walking up to las ramblas in order to go to a metro station. when i was about a few minutes from the end of my road, i heard the screams and a couple of crashes and i'm guessing that was the moment when the van had mounted the moment when the van had mounted the pavement and probably knocked over. . . the pavement and probably knocked over... you know, there are all kinds of stalls and that kind of thing. that's when i saw the crowds parting because there was a massive group of people on the road itself, and there were people passing, and th

police say he is driss oubakir.re reports that now suggest he has handed himself in to police and saying that his papers we re to police and saying that his papers were stolen, so that has still got to be established, whether he was the person that rented that the band. here, theresa may says she —— says she is sickened by the senseless loss of life and home authorities are working to find out if any british nationals were involved in the incident. she said tonight we stand with spain against terrorism. in the last hour, our correspondent has described the panic you saw on the streets. the crowd were being directed out of this area up until ten minutes ago. it shows what a massive population was in that area, because, as we know, it is one of the most visited parts of barcelona, but panic still continues to be the mood because a few minutes ago, somebody in the crowd got scared of something, we don't know what, and started running, and behind them were police officers with guns right behind me following, chasing, as

police have released a photo of this man, driss oubakir, said to have rented the van.od to have been known to police. a former prisoner, released five years ago. police say two people have been arrested tonight but investigators are still working to get to the bottom of how this happened and who was behind it. right now, people are being told to stay well away from the city. but this attack has happened in the middle of summer. there are locals, there are tourists, there are thousands of people here unsure of where to go and whether it is safe, and whether there are more people out there planning another attack. you cannot be sure to go anywhere else, anything can happen. wherever we go, we will still be exposed to something. tonight, as people start to comprehend the brutality of what's happened, they are being told to stay away and indoors, as police try to co—ordinate who carried out the attack and if any threat remains. well, i spoke to gavin a short while ago from the police cordon. he gave us this update. has been another police conference and they say the attack