The final hostage is freed when Dutch police apprehend a man leaving a nightclub
A man wearing a balaclava mask was taken into custody by police on Saturday, bringing an end to the hostage situation that had unfolded at a nightclub in the eastern Netherlands.
“Just now, the last hostage was set free. An arrest has been made, according to a police statement. “We cannot share more information at this time.”
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Reporters on the site reported that a man was arrested and placed in a police car as he exited the nightclub with his hands raised.
According to authorities on social media, special police units had been sent to the area, which was a building in the middle of the town of Ede, to deal with a hostage scenario.
Police had earlier stated that there was no sign of a terrorist motive.
The national newspaper, the Telegraaf, had stated, using many anonymous sources, that a man armed with explosives and guns was holding people hostage at the nightclub.
Reporting from Anthony Deutsch, Toby Sterling, and Piroschka van de Wouw Editing by Frances Kerry, Bernadette Baum, and William Maclean
