BARCELONA, Spain — Part of a sports center collapsed in high winds Saturday in the northern city of Barcelona, killing at least three children and trapping and injuring others, according to Spanish officials and media reports.

Freak winds gusting to 100 mph in some places caused at least three other deaths in Spain and France, officials said.

An official with the Barcelona region's Interior Ministry said "many children" were trapped in the debris at the sports center.

The local newspaper La Vanguardia reported, citing unnamed municipal officials, that 16 other people were injured. It did not say how many were children.

A woman who said she had seen the collapse told Spanish national broadcaster TVE that the children were preparing to play on a baseball field when they took shelter under a viewing stand with a corrugated metal roof.

Elsewhere in Spain, a woman died when a wall fell on her in Barcelona and a traffic officer was killed by a falling tree in northwest Galicia.