Overview

• Investigators say the Slotermeer flat fire started in the apartment of a deceased resident, the exact cause remains unclear, five people were injured and 17 homes are still uninhabitable after about 90 evacuations.
• A man died after a house fire in Utrecht’s Overvecht district, with police examining how the blaze began.
• An explosive device damaged a home on Hendrik Werkmanstraat in Almere around 01:15, shattering a window and blowing a hole in the door while the occupants were away, and police are investigating.
• Rijkswaterstaat warns of exceptionally heavy traffic during the autumn holiday as major closures proceed, including a full A9 shutdown between Holendrecht and Badhoevedorp this weekend and works on the A16, N210, N11 and N446.
• Police enforcement produced dozens of fines in Vlaardingen and a preventive search that found five weapons, and officers are probing the sawing down of a rainbow-flag mast in Alblasserdam where the flag was later raised on another pole.