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Driver Held After Detention-Center Chase as Rotterdam Region Investigates Nighttime Blasts

Officials say the item thrown over the prison fence was a phone with charger, prompting continued inquiries into possible links across the incidents.

Overview

  • Military police report that two of three detainees from the RotterdamSchiedam pursuit were released, the driver remains in custody, and a fourth suspect is still at large.
  • The package that triggered the chase after being tossed over the Detentiecentrum Rotterdam fence was found to contain a mobile phone and a charger.
  • An explosion damaged a tenth-floor apartment on Kromme Hagen in Rotterdam-IJsselmonde, marking the third blast at that address within a year; the resident was unharmed.
  • In Spijkenisse’s Citroengaard area, a blast shattered multiple windows and a fence with no injuries reported, following earlier incidents on the same street in recent years.
  • Police cordoned off Roerdompstraat in Ermelo with EOD on scene over a suspected explosives or illegal fireworks find, as a separate power outage affecting about 17,000 connections in Schiedam, Rotterdam and Vlaardingen was largely restored after midnight.