At least one person died and several were injured in a shooting this morning at around 10.45am local time in the Dutch city of Utrecht. According to reports by De Telegraaf, to shoot the passengers of a tram in October 24th square, a residential and peripheral area of the city, an important University center of the Netherlands; would have been a man, who then fled.
The police do not exclude the hypothesis that the attackers were more than one. Anti-terrorism units and helicopters intervened on the spot. The mission was a little more complicated than it would have normally been due to a police strike which is taking place throughout the Netherlands. The police surrounded a building on Trumanlaan Street, 700 meters away from the site of the attack, in search of the attacker who fled from the scene of the attack.
A journalist from the Dutch news agency ANP – who arrived at the scene – said he saw a victim lying on the ground, covered by a sheet on the rails between two trams. The Dutch police, who are investigating the shooting in Utrecht, “consider a possible terrorist motive”. Prime Minister Mark Rutte spoke of a “worrying” situation and brought together the crisis unit. The mayor of Utrecht, Jan Van Zanen, called the shooting on the tram “a horrible and extreme act”.
