Photojournalist Sira Esclasans has been injured this evening whilst covering the protests in Barcelona for El Nacional. She was working in front of the Catalan interior ministry when she was hit in the leg by a foam bullet fired by Mossos d'Esquadra Catalan police officers.
"In front of the interior ministry, Mossos have fired foam bullets despite having the press just in front of them and with accreditation. A bullet has bounced just next to my left leg whilst I was working," she wrote on Twitter. Journalists covering the protests are identified by at least a bright orange armband (visible in the second tweet below).
After being hit, she went to the volunteers Sanitaris per la República (Nurses for the Republic), who she thanked for their "incredible work" seeing to her wound.
Translation: "Sanitaris are attending to a journalist colleague who has been hit by a rubber bullet or foam projectile in the leg on passeig de Sant Joan. She was identified by a press armband."