Several people being held hostage in Dutch town, police say
Al Jazeera
The hostages are are being held in a building in town of Ede, with ‘no indication of a terrorist motive’.
Multiple people are being held hostage in a building in the town of Ede, in central Netherlands, police have said.
On Saturday, heavily armed police cordoned off part of the town, located 85km (53 miles) southeast of Amsterdam, police spokesman Simon Klok told The Associated Press news agency.
“A hostage situation involving several people is underway in a building in the centre” of Ede, police said in a statement on X. “At the moment there is no indication of a terrorist motive”.
In a subsequent update, police said three hostages have been released but that “the situation is not over yet”.
It was not immediately known how many people were held captive.
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