- Holland Shooting: Turkish Man Fingers in Mass Shooting
Holland security forces were searching for a 37-year old Turkish national suspected to have carried out a mass shooting on Monday in the City of Utrecht.
Three people were reportedly killed while nine others injured in the attack, according to the mayor.
Authorities have since raised terrorism threat alert to its highest level in the affected city, schools in the city were told to shut their doors.
Security has been increased across airports, mosques and other infrastructures as paramilitary policy comb the city for the suspect.
Prime Minister Mark Rutter while speaking with press said he was deeply concerned as the incident happened three days after a gunman killed 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand.
“Our country today has been jolted by an attack in Utrecht,” Rutte said in the statement. “Police and prosecutors are looking into what exactly happened. What’s known now is that there was shooting at people sitting in a tram in Utrecht, that there were wounded, and possibly deaths.”
“The police asks you to watch out for 37-year-old Gokman Tanis (born in Turkey) in connection with this morning’s incident,” Dutch police said in a statement.
