Two people were killed in two shootings in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday September 28. Police said the two victims were killed in the second shooting, at a university hospital in the city. A teenage girl is also in absolute emergency. A 32-year-old suspect was arrested. The shooter’s motives are still unknown.
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Two people were killed on Thursday September 28 in a double shooting in Rotterdam, police said. An armed man in combat gear opened fire in an apartment in the Dutch city, then burst into a nearby university hospital, where he fired again and killed two people. A teenage girl is also in a state of absolute emergency.
Fires broke out in both locations, but were able to be put out. “ The two shootings in Rotterdam left people dead. We will inform the family and loved ones first and we will give more explanations later », Declared the city police in a press release on X (formerly Twitter).
Elite police units raided the Dutch city’s hospital in search of the 32-year-old suspect, armed with a handgun, authorities said. The motive for the attack remains unknown, local news agency ANP said, citing police. The 32-year-old man was arrested by the police and is suspected of being the sole perpetrator of the shooting, police said.
Footage at the scene showed people leaving the hospital, including doctors and patients, as police in bulletproof vests entered. Police helicopters flew overhead. Doctors in white coats carried patients on stretchers and wheelchairs.
“There was a lot of panic and screaming”
“ First there was a shooting on the fourth floor. Four or five shots were fired. Then a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the educational center “, declared a medical student quoted by the RTL television channel, without giving his name. “ There was a lot of panic and screaming…I didn’t hear any shots, just panic “, declared another eyewitness, quoted by the public channel NOS.
Rotterdam is often the scene of shootings, usually attributed to score-settling between rival drug gangs. In 2019, three people were shot dead on a tram in Utrecht, sparking a massive manhunt. In 2011, the country was shocked when Tristan van der Vlis24, killed six people and injured ten others in a crowded shopping center.
(With AFP)