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Dutch police on Saturday said they had arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of stabbing three youths on a street in the centre of The Hague late on Friday.
Police said the suspect, described as having no fixed address, had been brought to a police station for questioning.

Dutch police arrested a homeless man on Saturday over a knife assault in a busy shopping street in The Hague which three teenagers were wounded.
The 35-year-old suspect was detained in the centre of the city a day after the stabbing which caused panic as shoppers hunted Black Friday bargains.
Police had earlier said they were investigating “several scenarios” and that it was “too early to speculate” about whether there was a possible terror motive.
The attack happened just hours after a terror suspect stabbed two people to death in London.
“Following the stabbing incident in Grote Marktstraat, a 35-year-old man has just been arrested in the centre of The Hague. The man has no fixed place of residence,” police said on Twitter.
“He will be transferred to a police station where he will be questioned.”
The victims were a 13-year-old boy and two 15-year-old girls, none of whom knew each other, police said. They were all treated in hospital but released overnight.
Hunt on for attacker who stabbed three minors at The Hague’s shopping street
The male attacker ran off after the stabbings at a department store in the city centre, triggering a huge manhunt involving police helicopters.
Images on social media showed shoppers running in panic away from the scene, on a night-time retail street lit by Christmas fairy lights.
Two teenage girls came running into the store after being stabbed, broadcaster NOS quoted witnesses as saying.
“I saw two girls screaming and running away. A man fled. He jumped very athletically over benches to get away. He looked like a cheetah,” one witness told NOS.
“People were trying to get away. but that didn’t work. I was shocked.”
Police forensics officers were seen examining a knife found at the scene overnight.
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“It’s a little too early to speculate about that kind of thing,” police spokeswoman Marije Kuiper told AFP earlier when asked about a possible terrorist motive, adding that investigators were still looking at several possible scenarios.
The stabbing took place not far from parliament, which is the seat of government for the Netherlands and home to many international organisations and courts.
In Britain, two members of the public were killed in a stabbing on London Bridge in the heart of the capital on Friday.
The Netherlands has seen a series of terror attacks and plots, although not so far on the scale of those in other European countries.
In March four people were killed when a Turkish-born man opened fire on a tram in the city of Utrecht.
In August 2018 an Afghan man stabbed and seriously wounded two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station, saying he wanted to “protect the Prophet Mohammed”.
He was jailed for 26 years in October this year.
Earlier this month a Pakistani man was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a plot to kill far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.


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Dutch police arrest 35-year-old suspect in Hague Black Friday stabbings

Dutch Police spokeswoman Marije Kuiper speaks to journalists in Grote Marktstraat where three people were injured in a stabbing attack. Photo: dpa

The site of a stabbing on a shopping street is pictured at The Hague, Netherlands November 29, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

Three wounded in Black Friday stabbing at The Hague’s busy shopping district

Dutch police secure a shopping street after a stabbing incident in The Hague on Friday. Photo: AP

epaselect epa08033856 Police in the Grote Marktstraat in The Hague, The Netherlands, 29 November 2019. Several people were injured in a stabbing. EPA-EFE/SEM VAN DER WAL

Dutch police block a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague's main shopping street. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Dutch police block a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague's main shopping street. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

As UK reels from London Bridge attack, questions over attacker’s release on parole

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and British Home Secretary, Priti Patel (C) visit the crime scene near London Bridge in London. Photo: EPA-EFE

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan speaks to the media near the scene of a stabbing on London Bridge, in which two people were killed, in London, Britain, November 30, 2019. REUTERS/Ian Walton

Buses and cars remain on London Bridge in London, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019, after it being closed to traffic and public after an attack on Friday. UK counterterrorism police on Saturday searched for clues into how a man imprisoned for terrorism offenses before his release last year managed to stab several people before being tackled by bystanders and shot dead by officers on London Bridge. Two people were killed and three wounded. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

British Police officers stand by forensic tents outside a residential address in Stafford, central England on November 30, 2019, raided in connection with the November 29 stabbings on London Bridge in the City of London. - A man suspected of stabbing two people to death in a terror attack on London Bridge was an ex-prisoner convicted of terrorism offences and released last year, police said Saturday. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

Flowers are left at the scene of a stabbing on London Bridge, in which two people were killed, in London, Britain, November 30, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

epa08034850 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (3-L) visits the crime scene near London Bridge in London, Britain, 30 November 2019. At least two members of the public have died and a male suspect has been shot dead by police at a scene on 29 November after a stabbing at London Bridge. EPA-EFE/VICKIE FLORES

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The 35-year-old suspect was detained in the centre of the city a day after the stabbing which caused panic as shoppers hunted Black Friday bargains



The 35-year-old suspect was detained in the centre of the city a day after the stabbing which caused panic as shoppers hunted Black Friday bargains.


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Dutch police arrest 35-year-old suspect in Hague Black Friday stabbings

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} The 35-year-old suspect was detained in the centre of the city a day after the stabbing which caused panic as shoppers hunted Black Friday bargains

The 35-year-old suspect was detained in the centre of the city a day after the stabbing which caused panic as shoppers hunted Black Friday bargains