Netherlands: hostage taking underway in a nightclub in the center of the country. In Ede, a man entered the establishment after closing where there were only employees.

Several special police units were deployed to the scene, police said in a statement posted on social media. 150 houses were evacuated as a precaution. No trains run between Barneveld-Zuid and Ede-Wageningen either. A negotiator is on scene, according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.