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Monday, March 18, 2019
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Dutch police say suspected Utrecht gunman arrested
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDutch police on Monday arrested the suspect in a shooting on a tram in the city of Utrecht in which three people were killed, a police chief says.
“We have just been informed that the suspect has been arrested,” Utrecht police chief Rob van Bree tells a news conference.
Police had earlier said they were searching for Turkish-born suspect Gokmen Tanis, 37, and issued a picture of him.
The head of the Dutch national counter-terrorism service, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, confirms “the arrest of the main suspect for the shooting.”
He says authorities had lowered the threat level in Utrecht from the maximum level five as a result of the arrest.
— AFP
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