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Monday, March 18, 2019
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Dutch PM doesn’t rule out terrorism as motive in Utrecht attack
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says that the Netherlands has been hit by an attack in Utrecht and that terrorism isn’t excluded, after one person was killed in a tram shooting along with an unknown number of wounded.
Rutte says that “our nation was hit by an attack in Utrecht. It is clear there were shots on tram passengers in Utrecht, that there are wounded,” without specifying how many. He said that “a terror motive is not excluded.”
Rutte says that throughout the nation, “there is a mix of disbelief and disgust.”
He says “if it is terror attack then we have only one answer: our nation, democracy must be stronger than fanaticism and violence.”
Dutch authorities have named a 37-year-old Turkey-born man as linked to the tram shooting.
— AP
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