Mosques and schools were closed across the Netherlands’ fourth-largest city of Utrecht following the bloodshed, before heavily armed officers surrounded a building and arrested the gunman.
Dutch police on Monday arrested a Turkish-born suspect over a shooting on a tram in Utrecht that left three people dead in what officials said was a possible terror attack.
“We have just heard that the suspect we are looking for has been arrested,” Utrecht police chief Rob van Bree told a dramatic press conference seconds after being handed a piece of paper with news of the arrest. Security forces were on high alert at airports and other government buildings following the attack, which came just days after 50 people were killed at mosques in New Zealand in a rampage by an alleged white supremacist.
The suspect’s father, Mehmet Tanis, said his son “must be punished” if found responsible, Turkey’s DHA agency quoted him as saying.
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