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| One Killed in Shooting in Amsterdam | |
| 2018-05-04 | |
| [AnNahar] One person was killed and another injured in a shooting in Amsterdam, a major tourist hub, Dutch police said Thursday. "There was a shooting on Wednesday evening in the Krootstraat street in the southeast of Amsterdam. There were two casualties," they said in statement said. One of the victims died, the other was injured and taken to hospital for treatment, it added. There was no apparent terror link to Wednesday's incident. Amsterdam has been the scene of an escalating gang war between criminal groups involved in drug trafficking.
"A suspect has been tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and fingerprints were taken at the scene of the crime," Thursday's police statement said. A shooting in downtown Amsterdam in January left a 17-year-old boy dead and two other people injured. In March 2016, the decapitated head of a man was found at the entrance to a hookah bar known to police as being a hangout for city criminals, the day after his body had been found in a burnt-out car. | |
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