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| Police find ‘no sign of terrorism’ behind stabbing attack on minors in the Hague | Police find ‘no sign of terrorism’ behind stabbing attack on minors in the Hague |
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| Dutch police say those injured in the stabbing assault in a shopping area in the Hague, since revealed to be underage, were not victims of a terrorist attack. The 35-year-old homeless suspect’s motive is still being probed. | Dutch police say those injured in the stabbing assault in a shopping area in the Hague, since revealed to be underage, were not victims of a terrorist attack. The 35-year-old homeless suspect’s motive is still being probed. |
| “Preliminarily there have been no signs found that would point to there having been a terrorist motive,” the Hague police said. “What the motive was, then, is still being investigated.” | “Preliminarily there have been no signs found that would point to there having been a terrorist motive,” the Hague police said. “What the motive was, then, is still being investigated.” |
| The Friday attack, which left three teenagers injured, took place in the busy central Grote Marktstraat during the Black Friday rush. | The Friday attack, which left three teenagers injured, took place in the busy central Grote Marktstraat during the Black Friday rush. |
| Footage filmed by passers-by showed people running in panic, many of them confused as to what had actually happened. The street was soon cordoned off by police, but the suspect managed to escape. | |
| Adding to the alarm was the fact that hours before the attack British-Pakistani terrorist Usman Khan stabbed two people to death and injured several more at London Bridge in London. Whether authorities are linking the two attacks has not been confirmed. | |
| However, after the Hague suspect, initially referred to as a man of either North African or Middle Eastern origin, was on Saturday arrested at a homeless shelter, his motive did not immediately become any clearer. A police spokesperson has since rolled back the original description of the suspect, but did not offer a corrected version. | |
| Police said they’ll continue to interrogate the as-yet unnamed suspect. | |
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