Netherlands: One dead, at least two injured in Amsterdam shooting

 

One person was killed and at least two injured in a shooting in Amsterdam on Friday evening.

Dutch police reported the shooting to have happened in the Centrum Oost area in Grote Wittenburgerstraat.

Emergency services were seen on the cordoned-off scene as police searched for evidence.

Police wrote on their Twitter account that “multiple shots [were] discharged, multiple casualties”. They said an extensive investigation was underway.

A police spokesman was quoted by local media as saying the shooting didn’t seem to be an attack, but a conflict in the criminal circuit.