11 police officers injured in Catalonia referendum clashes

Eleven police are injured in Catalonia in clashes with protesters as officers tried to block voting in a banned independence referendum, Spain’s interior ministry says.

“For now there are a total of nine national police officers and two Civil Guard officers who have been injured while carrying out a judge’s order” to stop the referendum, the ministry says in a Twitter message, adding that rocks had been thrown at police.

— AFP

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