On Tuesday, 10 November 2026, a 17-year-old was seriously wounded in a shooting at a public-housing building on Calle Rafael R. Urrusti in Oviedo’s Villafría district. The young woman was taken to hospital. At around 8.45am, an explosion at the building entrance killed a National Police officer and seriously injured a second agent. Officers had found a backpack containing a suspected explosive device. It detonated during the police intervention.
Villafría residents described hearing gunfire, then cries for help and a blast. Julia García said her brother heard a woman calling for help shortly before two shots, followed by a third. A man then ran from the entrance shouting for someone to call an ambulance, she recounted. Police had cordoned off the area.
García said she heard the explosion while showering, then heard agents call for a tourniquet. She recalled that an ambulance arrived about ten minutes later. When she left home at around 9.40am, a double police cordon was in place. The second injured officer was a TEDAX bomb-disposal specialist who was transferred urgently to the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias.
Other accounts added details but did not establish who fired the shots. A resident opposite the building said he heard up to five detonations and later saw someone leave in a white people carrier. He could not confirm whether that person was the shooter. A worker at a nearby bar said the injured teenager’s mother arrived asking for help before the explosion. Her husband had taken their daughter to hospital.
The blast also startled residents who had not heard the gunfire. María del Mar González said she saw smoke coming from entrance 2A and initially suspected a gas explosion. Olga Sáez, who lives in a neighbouring building, said police were already at the scene as she left with her daughter for school.
The officer killed was a deputy inspector assigned to the National Police canine unit. Police searched for the alleged shooter and the person believed to have left the backpack as investigators examined the explosion. The report described the alleged shooter as having multiple previous records for ordinary crime. Residents described him as a source of conflict in the neighbourhood. Police had not confirmed that the person seen leaving in the white vehicle was responsible. The incident was described as arising from a dispute involving local families. The precise motive and the relationship between the shooter and the victim remained under investigation. A separate case involving a search for a shooting suspect was reported in an Orihuela Costa shooting.
