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 number of people ran into the market area in a big kind of way, lots of screaming, lots of shouting." he said security guards immediately responded, granted to the bakery with four or five people, ran upstairs and immedy hunker down. authorities are looking to find the driver of the van and are searching

the las romblas shopping district, popular area for tourists. you just heard sandra smith say it with me, alongside here that those reports of gunfire outside of a shopping department store could not be confirmed by the interior ministry, they are saying from a department that that did not happen, but what we do know today is that there have been dead and injured in summing the police are calling a terror attack. this is spain, we'll keep coverage on this on on fox news channel and on your broadcast station that you're watching right now. in the meantime, people in the local area are on lockdown. here's what we know about that. the metro trains and all the public transportation around this have been shut down. people were told to shelter in place at this point. those shops have their window coverings drawn and people are told to stay away from the windows. this is very much an active scene because whatever happened with the person who jumped out of that man, they're looking for that person and then the separate reports that this hostages taken b

a white van jumped to the sidewalk in las romblas which is a district of stalls, and shops.

once again, a white van plowing into a crowd of pedestrians in the las romblas district near catalonalona. plenty of people in the plaza at the time. the emergency services have shut down the subways and shelter in place and telling anyone in the area, tourists or people who live there to call their family members to let them know they are okay. we'll be monitoring this situation throughout the afternoon and have a full report later on "world news tonight" with david muir. we now return to our scheduled programming. >> announcer: this has been a special report from abc news. usn in self-defense you won't want to miss. all next on "live." [cheers and applause] [upbeat music] ♪ [pop music] and now here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest. [cheers and applause] [pop music] ♪ >> kelly: hi! hi! hi, hi, hi. [cheers and applause] >> ryan: oh! >> kelly: hello. you got in. that's good. >> ryan: yeah.