After hours-long security measures, a suspect has been arrested in a shooting in the Dutch city of Utrecht that caused three people deaths as well as several wounded, authorities reported media.
Dutch security forces started their actions searching the 37-year-old Turkish born man suspected of Monday shooting on a tram that supposed to be possible terrorist attack involved several people.
The Mayor of Utrecht, Jan van Zanen, has since allegedly revealed three deaths, as well as nine people, went the hospital with severe wounds.
However, security forces have boosted up the terrorist threat to its highest level in Utrecht province, mosques were shut down for the day, schools remained also closed, even paramilitary police raised security steps at airports and other very important infrastructure, and finally discovered the suspect of the Monday shooting in the Dutch city.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte held crisis talks, commenting that he had taken the incident seriously with deep concerns that took place just three days after a lone armed person shot dead 50 people in mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Dutch police explained in a statement, “The police asks you to watch out for 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis (born in Turkey) in connection with this morning’s incident”.
Security officers have issued the photograph of the suspect of the shooting incident on Monday warning locals of the city not to approach the dangerous armed person. While the police denied the previous day to give further details regarding him.
On another side, the head of Dutch counter-terrorism, Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg had given statement earlier that shots had been fired at a number of locations, without further detail.
A house in Utrecht had also been surrounded by Counter-terrorism units, while Dutch television demonstrated no one seen to have been taken into custody of the police.
Mr. Aalbersberg had also been declined to give required details about the victims of the Monday shooting but just called it “appears to be a terrorist attack”, even he didn’t bring confirmation of deaths.