Overview
- Authorities say the car was signaled to stop around 04:40 on Bezuidenhoutseweg, sped off, struck a tree near Reigersbergenweg, flipped and caught fire, leaving three dead and one injured.
- The victims are two women and a man; the injured survivor is a woman who was not the driver and has not been arrested, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
- The Rijksrecherche is conducting an independent probe into the police action, with officers to be interviewed and forensic work and camera footage under review.
- In Rotterdam, an explosion at a garage on Melbournestraat injured five people, including one with severe burns; the site is cordoned off as structural and labor-safety inspectors assess the building.
- Police made separate arrests in recent explosive incidents, detaining a minor from Amsterdam over a repeat attack on a Noordbroek home and two suspects in the Nijmegen shop blast, and a 25-year-old was arrested in France in a November Rotterdam homicide case with extradition requested.