Police have surrounded a popular café in the Netherlands where a man has taken hostages and threatened to blow himself up.
Video shared on social media showed a bomb disposal robot moving steadily down the street as police with automatic weapons and riot gear patrolled nearby.Local media reported shortly before that three young people had been seen leaving the building crying. They included a young boy, Algemeen Dagblad reported.It is not known how many people are being held but local media have reported around four or five people are involved.
A 'Bearcat' heavily armoured car was also filmed arriving on the scene, used only in exceptional circumstances by the Special Interventions Service .Insiders on social media said the hostage taker, whose identity has not been reported, entered with knives.First reports of the hostage taker emerged shortly before 6am.
The Netherlands has seen a series of terror attacks and plots but not on the scale of other European countries, such as France or Britain. Also in 2019, Dutch police charged two suspected jihadists with planning a terror attack using suicide bombs and car bombs. Authorities said an attack was planned that year.
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