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Overnight Explosions, Rotterdam Shootings and Fatal Collapse Stretch Dutch Emergency Services

Police launch parallel investigations, seeking footage across several towns.

Overview

  • A blast at a flat in Lisse blew out windows and triggered a fire with no injuries reported, and police are asking residents with camera footage to come forward.
  • Explosions in Poortugaal and Hoogvliet caused damage but no casualties, with forensic traces secured at both scenes and no arrests announced.
  • A woman was resuscitated at Kralingseplein in Rotterdam after being shot overnight, and police detained two men as suspects.
  • In a separate incident on Rotterdam’s Stadhuisplein, a 32-year-old man was wounded after an altercation near a café, and the case remains under investigation.
  • Police confirmed a 20-year-old from Uithuizen died when a barn collapsed in Bellingwolde, while a minor in Baarn was arrested after roughly 100 illegal fireworks were seized.