11 police officers injured in Catalonia: interior ministry

 Eleven police were injured in Catalonia in clashes with protesters Sunday as officers tried to block voting in a banned independence referendum, Spain's interior ministry said.

"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 said in a Twitter message, adding that rocks had been thrown at police.

Source: AFP