Rotterdam stabbing: One killed and another seriously injured in knife attack in city

Police arrested a fishy who was besides injured and taken to a infirmary for attraction and investigations are ongoing to found a motive for the onslaught successful the Netherlands

One idiosyncratic was killed and different earnestly wounded successful a stabbing incidental precocious Thursday successful the Dutch larboard metropolis of Rotterdam, constabulary said. Police arrested a fishy who was besides injured and taken to a infirmary for treatment.

Police spokesperson Wessel Stolle said officers were investigating the stabbing adjacent the landmark Erasmus Bridge. Stolle said that determination was nary contiguous connection connected a motive, but "we look into each imaginable scenarios."

Dutch regular De Telegraaf, citing witnesses astatine the scene, reported that a antheral attacked radical astatine random with 2 knives portion shouting Allahu Akbar, the Arabic operation meaning God is great.

Stolle said constabulary astatine the country besides had heard that the antheral shouted the phrase, and that "it's portion of the investigation."

A sports instructor, Reniel Renato David Litecia, said helium deed the attacker with 2 sticks aft seeing him onslaught idiosyncratic and managed to instrumentality the knives and propulsion them away.

He said helium initially thought it was a fight, "but erstwhile I started moving successful that absorption I saw that it wasn't a fight. It was a antheral with 2 agelong knives who was stabbing different young feline and erstwhile I started shouting helium turned astir and started approaching everyone who was astir him."

The individuality of the victims and fishy were not instantly clear. Further details were not instantly available.