Catalonia referendum: La Liga game between Barcelona and Las Palmas will be 'played behind closed doors'

A Spanish football match between Barcelona and Las Palmas due to kick off later on Sunday has been postponed following clashes between police and voters in Catalonia over a disputed independence referendum, El Pais newspaper reported.

The La Liga game had been due to kick off at 4.15 pm local time at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium. There was no immediate confirmation of the decision to postpone.

However, Barcelona Football Club, while condemning the violence, clarified that the match would be played with this tweet.

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— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) October 1, 2017

Earlier, police burst into the polling station in a town in Girona province minutes before Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was due to vote there. They smashed glass panels to force open the door as voters, fists in the air, sang the Catalan anthem. Police also fired rubber bullets in central Barcelona, El Periodico newspaper reported, at the intersection of two streets as violence erupted during the vote which has thrown Spain into its worst constitutional crisis for decades.