Overview
- Police in Rotterdam secured material after an explosion under the hood of a parked Audi TT on Tweebosstraat around 01:00 to determine whether heavy fireworks were used.
- In Rotterdam-Delfshaven, a taxibus and two cars were destroyed by fire on Keilestraat, with additional vehicle fires reported overnight in Utrecht, Den Bosch, Emmen and Smilde; no injuries were reported.
- Officers searched a garage box on Icarusstraat in Rotterdam where multiple jerrycans with an unknown liquid were found and boxes possibly containing fireworks were examined; police declined to detail findings.
- The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service detonated illegal, modified fireworks seized in a Zwijndrecht garage, and police said the owner must report to the station.
- Authorities separately confirmed a fatal crash on the N421 near Odijk that killed an 85-year-old woman, arrests of three burglary suspects in Abcoude, and a prison staffer injured in a stabbing at PI Vught.