The BBC says that the Prime Minister over there has cancelled his regular meeting with coalition parties in his government and is very concerned about what happened.
Also “possible terrorist motive” in the story.
But only America has mass killings...
Per Dutch media reports: At least one dead, several injured, 1 to 2 peeps on the loose, mosques in Utrecht are told to close and are being “guarded”, possible “terrorist” motive.
Geert Wilders tweeting in Dutch ten minutes ago.
He was campaigning I guess for elections in May to the EU parliament.
Message appears to be one of suspending his campaigning.
Headlines from NOS Dutch TV News via Google Translation.
“NCTV; ALL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK”
“POLITICAL PARTIES STOP CAMPAIGNING, RUTTE (PRIME MINISTER) MEETS IN CRISIS MEETING”
maak nederland weer fantastisch
Utrecht shooting: ‘One dead’ as man opens fire in tram
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47611811
A gunman has opened fire inside a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
Several people have been injured and one is feared to have died in the shooting at about 10:45 local time (09:45 GMT) near the 24 Oktoberplein junction, reports say.
Police say the gunman is still at large. The area has been cordoned off, trams stopped and schools have been asked to keep their doors closed.
Counter-terror police reportedly say it has all the marks of a terror attack.
The Dutch anti-terrorism co-ordinator is in touch with local authorities and says the threat level has been temporarily raised to its highest point in Utrecht.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he was “deeply concerned” and cancelled his weekly coalition talks.
Security services have reportedly told Utrecht’s University Medical Centre to open the dedicated emergency ward to help care for the injured.
Utrecht University has reportedly closed all buildings, with nobody allowed in or out. Trains are also not allowed to run into Utrecht Central station.
“A man started shooting wildly,” one eyewitness told Dutch news site NU.nl.
Another witness told Dutch public broadcaster NOS he saw an injured woman with blood on her hands and clothes.
(more at BBC link)
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Tighter gun laws than New Zealand. Still, guns are the problem.
Compare the reactions. New Zealand, and now this. In both cases the Westerners bow down in submission and beg forgiveness.
Dutch police hunt for Turkish man after tram shooting
UTRECHT, Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch security forces were hunting for a 37-year-old Turkish man suspected of having shot several people, one of them possibly fatally, on a tram in the city of Utrecht on Monday, in what authorities said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
Authorities raised the terrorism threat to its highest level in Utrecht province, schools were told to shut their doors and paramilitary police increased security at airports and other vital infrastructure, and also at mosques.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte convened crisis talks, saying he was deeply concerned about the incident, which came three days after a lone gunman killed 50 people in mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
“The police asks you to watch out for 37-year-old Gokman Tanis (born in Turkey) in connection with this morning’s incident,” Dutch police said in a statement.
Just reported on Dutch news the shooter yelled allah akbar an turkish news reports he is went to chechnia to fight and spent time in jail for his connection to ISIS. He is well known to Dutch police for his long criminal record
He was arrested in 2013 for a shooting incident and in 2017 for rape
Turkish Muslim Jihadist..will wait for the media’s tears regarding this, nah who am I fooling, they will say this was justified
A “religion” so peaceful it takes it only two days to retaliate...