Police use water cannon, tear Gas on 5th day of violent separatist rallies in Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain (Sputnik/UNI) The police are trying to take unrest in Spain’s city of Barcelona under control and used rubber bullets and tear gas for it, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the capital of the Catalonia region, adding that the security forces also used a water cannon for the first time since the beginning of the rallies to extinguish burning barricades and garbage cans.

Train services in protest-affected Catalonia halted due to sabotage on tracks - Reports

Moscow, Oct 16 (Sputnik/UNI) High-speed trains between Spain's Barcelona and Figueres stopped running on Wednesday morning because a fiber optics cable, which rail operators have said was "cut intentionally," was found along the tracks, media reported, citing sources from Spain's Administrator of Railway Infrastructures.