They arrested the main suspect for the gun attack on a tram in the Netherlands.

Dutch police arrested the main suspect to provoke the attack on a tramway in the city of Utrecht that left three dead and five injured on Monday morning.

"We have just learned that the suspect had been arrested," said the head of the Utrecht police, Rob van Bree, at a press conference. Security forces had previously indicated that they were looking for a man born in Turkey, Gokmen Tanis, 37 years oldwho is the one who was arrested after noon.

The man was captured very close to the place where the police in which Gokman Tanis had escaped from the place where the attack had occurred had been found, the machine on the way, a few hours ago.

"The shooting suspect He was stopped at Oudenoord, Utrecht. Previously, the police had published information and a picture of this same person, "said the local security force via his Twitter account.

The prosecution investigating the shooting said "that it took into account terrorist motivebut other badumptions can not be ruled out ".

Tanis has added a long list of criminal records in recent years, but nothing of this magnitude: robberies carrying out violence, badaulting security forces and badual harbadment on the street.

The other hypothesis put forward by the prosecution is that it is an attack on a person whom the Turk had known before. In fact, relatives of Tanis told the official Turkish news agency Anatolia that he had opened fire against another of his relatives "for family reasons", and then against those who were trying to l & # 39; 39; stop.

The last part confirmed by the Utrecht police confirmed the death of three people, while five others injured are in the hospital, some with serious injuries.

"Today is a black day for our city, for Utrecht. They attacked innocent people on the tram who went to work or to school. This day is cruelly different, "said city mayor Jan Van Zanen.

The suspect was traveling on a tramway in the district of Kbadeneiland, in the western part of Utrecht, when he pulled out a pistol and he began to shoot against the pbadengers. The first fatal victim was a woman. The others were hit by the shots while they were trying to help, witnesses said.