the police gave chase to this man who was driving a white ford focus car a he s shotead, that's accordinge media reports, in a suburb of barcelona. what we are also seeing is the regional police are saying they detained two people in relation to this attack. that was about 15 minutes ago that they released to that attack. --that they released information on that attack. official sources have been condemning these attacks, saying spain is a peaceful place. this is going to change our way of life. wehas been on terrorist alert -- we know spain has been on terrorist alert. imagery it -- in madrid and barcelona you would see regional police with guns on the street. this was happening in other countries and now spain joins this list. sarah: we do not know if the checkpoint incident and the van attack are connected. we have a lot of information coming in. you are talking about catalonia being a relatively peaceful area, it was not always so? >> catalonia has always been peaceful. we have seen terrorism in spain but a different kind. we saw the basque terrorism which mainly affected that region.