Several people are wounded in stabbing on shopping street in The Hague
Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague’s main shopping street.
Police said in a tweet Friday evening that the incident happened in the city’s main shopping street.
The incident happened in Grote Marktstraat, which is at the centre of the city’s shopping district.
Several people were stabbed this evening on Grote Marktstraat in The Hague
The knife man attacked several people in the city’s main shopping district
The condition of those who have been stabbed is not yet known. Police said they were looking for a man, about 45 to 50 in a grey jogging suit
The incident happened in the city’s main shopping street, which was busy with people looking for Black Friday deals.
Pictures from the area showed several dozen onlookers kept behind police fencing seeking a glimpse of the area where the stabbing took place.
The Hague police said in a statement that they were looking for a man, about 45 to 50 years old, in a grey jogging suit.
Police spokeswoman Marije Kuiper told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that it was not clear if the stabbing was a terror incident.
Further details were not immediately available.