2000 News just in - A municipal policeman has died in Barcelona in what is thought to have been a terrorist attack carried out at 0800 this morning. What appears to have happened is the Guardia Urbana agent was shot in the Avenida Diagonal. First reports describe Two people who were pushing a Fiat Uno car - the guardia approached to offer help and one of the two shot him twice. His death has now been confirmed.
Police remain at the scene and are inspecting the car to see if it itself contains explosives.
Meanwhile the Catalan party CiU has issued a statement in which it says it plainly approves the pact document against terrorism signed by the PP and PSOE, but that it would not be signing it. The two main parties have both decided not to negotiate the contents of the pact document, but to give more time to think for the parties that have not signed the pact which has now also obtained support from Unions, the business organisation CEOE and the federation of municipalities in Spain. It follows a reduction carried out on Monday by Cepsa, but the other major player in the sector, Repsol, has announced that it is leaving it s prices where they are at present. A married couple have been detained in Cordoba for the attempted murder of their son. The 58 year old man and 53 year old woman are charged with hitting the 30 year son over the head with an iron bar and then setting fire to his home with him still inside.