Witnesses told local media that the assailant was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’
One person has been killed and another one was wounded in a stabbing attack in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday evening, police said. The suspect has been detained.
The attack occurred near the iconic Erasmus Bridge in the central part of the city. Police said that bysnanders have confronted and “overpowered” the assailant.
Police spokesman Wessel Stolle told reporters that the detained suspect was himself injured and was taken to a hospital.
Stolle added that investigators haven’t yet determined a motive and were looking “into all possible scenarios.”
According to the newspaper De Telegraaf, the suspect was armed with two large knives and was stabbing people at random. Multiple witnesses interviewed by the Dutch media said that the assailant was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
The man “clearly intended to claim many victims,” a witness told De Telegraaf.
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