Several people taken hostage in a locality in the Netherlands. There is currently no sign of “terrorist motivation,” Dutch police said.
houses had been evacuated and the city center closed, police said in a statement on social network X. The hostage-taking involving several people is underway in a building in the center of the town of Ede, Dutch police say. The Dutch police responded to X in a press release after “many questions about the motive.’“There is currentlyno sign of a ‘terrorist motivation,’ said the Dutch police.