Overview

• Police say the blaze started in the deceased man’s apartment and have retracted an earlier assertion about suicide, noting the exact cause awaits medical findings as the criminal inquiry is closed.
• About ninety residents were evacuated, five people were injured including a firefighter, and city, insurers and the building association are helping affected tenants, including two uninsured subtenants.
• In Almere’s Tussen de Vaarten, an explosive detonated around 1:15 a.m. at a home on Hendrik Werkmanstraat, blowing out a window and damaging the door; no one was inside and police are investigating.
• The Almere incident follows two earlier explosions on Holbeinstraat this month that led the mayor to order temporary camera surveillance.
• Separately, a driver died after rear-ending a truck on the A15 near Tiel, and a 21-year-old from Tolbert was fined €400 for flying a drone over a police station and within the UMCG area, which prosecutors said posed aviation safety risks.