North East holidaymakers caught up in Barcelona attack

A student from North Yorkshire has described the moment terrorists targeted Barcelona.

Kiera Birkenshaw was caught up in the attack that claimed the lives of 13 people in the popular Spanish city.

The 22-year-old from Scarbrough was on holiday with her boyfriend Kyle Morrison, from Middlesbrough,

A van ploughed in to people just a minute's walk away from the hotel she was staying in, near Las Ramblas, an area popular among tourists.

The death toll in the Spanish terror attacks has now risento 14, police said.

At least 13 people died and more than 100 were injured when a van crashed into pedestrians in Barcelona's busy Las Ramblas district on Thursday night.

Hours later five suspected terrorists wearing fake suicide vests were shot by police after driving into people in the coastal town of Cambrils.