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Three wounded in Black Friday stabbing at The Hague’s busy shopping district
- Dutch police are hunting for a male suspect who attacked shoppers as they looked for bargains on Black Friday
- Too early to say if terror motive to blame for attack, according to authorities
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Police in the Netherlands were hunting an assailant who stabbed three minors in The Hague’s main shopping street as people looked for bargains on Black Friday.
The male attacker ran off after the incident at a department store in the city centre that caused scenes of panic among the crowds of shoppers. Authorities were carrying out checks at train stations and on local transportation networks on Saturday, according to media reports.
“We are currently taking all scenarios into account,” a police spokeswoman told local media about the attack, which came hours after two people died in a terror-related stabbing in London. There was no sign of a terrorist motive in this attack, police said.
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All three victims were minors, police said, without giving their ages. They were all later allowed to go home from hospital.
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The police had initially said the alleged offender, who was on the run, was a man of about 45 to 50 years in age with curly black hair and a darker complexion. They later retracted the description.
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