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| ‘20 shots fired’: Police shoot armed suspect dead outside Dutch central bank in Amsterdam | |
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| Police have shot a man dead outside the Dutch central bank in Amsterdam following a massive operation. The man had approached officers brandishing a firearm. | |
| The man was shot around 7:15 pm local time, according to Amsterdam Police. Paramedics arrived at the scene, but the man succumbed to his injuries and died. The man came at officers with a weapon drawn, but it was unclear from the police tweet if he opened fire on them or not. | |
| Bystanders told local news network AT5 that they heard around 20 gunshots ring out. One bystander was injured in the crossfire. | |
| Gunshots can be heard in a video shot from a passing car. Further footage from the scene shows a massive police response, with the surrounding streets closed off to traffic and trams also being halted. | |
| Another video shows emergency services preparing to load the man’s body onto a stretcher. | |
| Police also arrested the occupants of a car at a petrol station in the south of the city. | |
| A spokesman for the De Nederlandsche Bank told NOS that the incident had nothing to do with the bank. | |
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