One particular person has been killed and one other one was wounded in a stabbing assault within the Dutch metropolis of Rotterdam on Thursday night, police mentioned. The suspect has been detained.
The assault occurred close to the long-lasting Erasmus Bridge within the central a part of the town. Police mentioned that bysnanders have confronted and “overpowered” the assailant.
Police spokesman Wessel Stolle advised reporters that the detained suspect was himself injured and was taken to a hospital.
Stolle added that investigators haven’t but decided a motive and had been trying “into all doable eventualities.”
In line with the newspaper De Telegraaf, the suspect was armed with two giant knives and was stabbing individuals at random. A number of witnesses interviewed by the Dutch media mentioned that the assailant was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
The person “clearly supposed to assert many victims,” a witness advised De Telegraaf.
Kickboxing coach Reniel Renato David Litecia advised reporters that he hit the attacker with two sticks and managed to remove his knives. Different individuals reportedly tried to cease the suspect by throwing furnishings at him.
Investigators and ambulance crews are working on the crime scene.
The Dutch authorities warned in June concerning the elevated risk of terrorist assaults.
“Jihadism stays the primary terrorist risk in opposition to the Netherlands, with followers fuelled by propaganda with pictures of the conflict in Gaza and Quran violations,” the authorities mentioned of their discover, referring to an try and publicly burn a duplicate of the Muslim holy ebook within the metropolis of Arnhem in January.
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