'A shooting occurred on the 24 Oktoberplein in Utrecht... Multiple people have been injured.'
The head of the Dutch national counter-terrorism service, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, said on Twitter that he was having"crisis consultations" over the incident.
"Offender still fugitive," Aalbersberg said, adding that the terror threat level had been raised to the maximum of five in Utrecht for the next 18 hours.Local media showed photographs of masked, armed police and emergency vehicles surrounding a tram that had stopped near a road bridge.The Netherlands has been largely spared the kind of attacks which have rocked its closest European neighbours in the past few years, but there has been a series of recent scares.
In September, Dutch investigators said they had arrested seven people and foiled a"major attack" on civilians at a major event in the Netherlands.
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