UTRECHT, Netherlands: Dutch police on Monday arrested the suspect involved in a shooting on a tram in the city of Utrecht in which three people were killed, a police chief said.
“We have just been informed that the suspect has been arrested,” Utrecht police chief Rob van Bree told a news conference.
Police had earlier said they were searching for Turkish-born suspect Gokmen Tanis, 37, and issued a picture of him.
At least Three people were killed and nine others wounded in a shooting in a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht.
Authorities raised the terrorism threat to its highest level in Utrecht province, schools were told to shut their doors and paramilitary police increased security at airports and other vital infrastructure, and also at mosques.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte convened crisis talks, saying he was deeply concerned about the incident, which came three days after a lone gunman killed 50 people in mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.
