Several wounded in shooting on tram in Dutch city of Utrecht: Police

Team Udayavani, Mar 18, 2019, 11:16 AM IST

The Hague: Several people were wounded in a shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday, police said, with local media reporting counter-terrorism police at the scene.

“Shooting incident… Several injured people reported. Assistance started,” the Utrecht police Twitter account said. “It is a shooting incident in a tram. Several trauma helicopters have been deployed to provide help.”

Authorities are not ruling out a possible “terror motive”, police said in a separate tweet. 

The October 21st square, a tram station stop outside the city centre, has been cordoned off.

Local media showed photographs of masked, armed police and emergency vehicles surrounding a tram that had stopped near a road bridge.

Authorities had no further details about the incident and could not say how badly hurt the victims were.

Local broadcaster RTV Utrecht quoted an eyewitness as saying he had seen a woman lying on the ground amid some kind of confrontation. Several men ran away from the scene, the witness said.