Demonstrators wave Spanish flags and support police during a demonstration in favor of a unified Spain on the day of a banned independence referendum in Catalonia, in Madrid, Spain, October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
Madrid: 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.
