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Spate of Vehicle Fires Across Netherlands as Rotterdam Probes Car Explosion Linked to Suspected Fireworks

Investigators are concentrating on fireworks-related causes during intensified evidence collection.

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.