Police say the Apple Retailer hostage scenario has ended.
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Police in Amsterdam answered Tuesday to a hostage scenario at a flagship Apple retailer in Leidseplein, a well-liked buying groceries and leisure house within the town. The hostage was once freed Tuesday evening, police tweeted at 1:44 p.m. PT, and the suspected hostage taker was once captured when police hit him with a car as he ran out of the Apple Retailer.
“The hostage is secure,” police stated. “Now we have now been in a position to convey much more individuals who had been within the construction to protection.”
The suspect has now been taken to health center. There have been no explosives discovered on him, and the investigation is ongoing.
Previous Tuesday night time native time, police had stated on an authentic Twitter account that there was once “an ongoing hostage scenario on the Apple Retailer at Leidseplein.” Police stated that an individual with a firearm was once within the retailer and that specialist devices had been on the scene to get the “scenario beneath regulate.” They cleared the sq. the place the shop is positioned and requested other people in Leidseplein to stick within.
Amsterdam police supplied updates all the way through the location by way of Twitter, tweeting at 11:53 a.m. PT that “a number of other people” had been in a position to get out of the construction. At 1:15 p.m. PT, they stated “dozens of other people” had left the Apple Retailer and had been being taken to a police location to offer witness statements and be given sufferer beef up products and services.
A theft was once first reported at round 5:40 p.m. native time (8:40 a.m. PT), in keeping with native broadcaster AT5. One guy was once concerned within the scenario, Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool reported. The person exited the Apple Retailer ahead of seeing police, taking a hostage and reentering the shop, the newspaper stated, mentioning eyewitnesses.
AT5 additionally reported that witnesses had heard gunshots. One Het Parool reporter on the scene tweeted a couple of police officer citing a conceivable explosion danger. The Netherlands Particular Interventions Provider may be responding to the scene.
More than one posts on social media confirmed pictures of the incident, regardless of other people being cautioned by means of police to not percentage data.
Apple did not right away reply to a request for remark, however up to date its hours for the shop. Following the hostage scenario, it’ll stay closed till Friday morning.
