In the Netherlands, a man fired on a tramway and injured several others

Several people were injured Monday as a result of the death of a car on a tram in the city of Utrecht, in the center of the Netherlands.

Witnesses said that one person had shot and then escaped. The police deployed an operation to try to arrest the person responsible for the shooting. They do not exclude that it is a terrorist act.

"The investigation of the shooting at Oktoberplein 24 in #Utrecht is underway, we are also considering a terrorist motive," said police in the city of Utrecht in a message posted on his Twitter social network account .

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Several people were shot in a streetcar in Utrecht in the center of the Netherlands, according to eyewitnesses from the local newspaper "Algemeen Dagblad".

"There was a shooting on Oktoberplein Square in Utrecht, the incident occurred at 10:45 am Several people were injured," police said in a previously posted message on his network account social Twitter.

A police spokesman told the newspaper "Algemeen Dagblad" that the author of the shooting had escaped from the scene. Several witnesses later claimed that several people had participated in the event.

Police deployed an officer with the anti-terrorist unit agents to try to arrest the person responsible for the shooting, which resulted in the suspension of the tram service in this section. Several ambulances were moved to the scene and the medical service sent three helicopters to evacuate the most seriously wounded to hospitals.

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