Multiple People Hurt In Dutch Shooting Incident

Anti-terrorism police are at the scene

Multiple people have been injured after a shooting incident inside a tram in the Dutch town of Utrecht on Monday.

Dutch authorities are considering “a possible terrorist motive” for the shooting, which happened in 24 October Square at 10:45 a.m. (5:45 a.m ET), Utrecht police said on Twitter.

“We cannot rule out terrorist motive,” Holland’s National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, PJ Aalbersberg, tweeted. “Crisis team is activated.”

Police have not taken any suspects into custody, according to Joost Lanshage, spokesman for the police in central Holland. He said the shooting is now over, but that the police operation is ongoing.

Three rescue helicopters have been sent to the scene — which has since been cordoned off — to “monitor” the situation, Lanshage said.




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