Epa-ee/rex/shutterstockAccording to police, five people were injured after a stabbing near the central Dam de Amsterdam square.
The injured include two north -Americans, a Polish man, a Belgian woman and a Dutch woman. The youngest is 19 years old and over 73, the police add.
The male suspect, who has been arrested, was exceeded with the help of the neighbors and taken to the hospital with an injury to the legs.
Police say that the reason behind the attack is « in investigation », but he is considering the possibility that the suspect may have chosen people at random.
Amsterdam Mayor, Femke Halsema, said that a police investigation was « in full evolution » and that authorities expected to discover more details than it happened soon.
« Our heart goes to the victims, their families and their loved ones, » he said.
Wounded people are a 67 -year -old woman and a 69 -year -old man, both in the United States; a 26 -year -old man from Poland; a 73 -year -old woman from Belgium; and a 19 -year -old woman from Amsterdam.
Police said that just before 15:30 local time (14:30 GMT) emergency services received several reports from an stabbing incident.
Officers quickly arrived at the scene and found five people injured in various places in Nicolaassraat and in the vicinity, in the city center, according to police.
With the help of the neighbors, the officers captured a suspect shortly after the incident, said police.
Authorities accommodated a large area around the royal palace of Central Dam square, where an emergency helicopter landed.
Epa-ee/rex/shutterstockThe square is popular with tourists located in the heart of the historic district of the city.
A witness said to the Dutch Telegraaf role that they suddenly heard a « ice cream » and that after this panic he exploded in the area.
A shop assistant also said that he felt many shouts and shouts and that people started running, reported the document.
Amsterdam Outlet Het Parool cited a witness saying that he approached a girl after listening to a noise. When someone else was calling to call an ambulance, he saw a knife « coming out of the girl’s back, among her shoulders. »
Police ask anyone with pictures of the incident to upload them as proof.
The number of people injured was for a time that it was four, but in a later update, police said that five people were injured and the suspect.
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