Utrecht police said they have detained the main suspect in a shooting that killed three people and injured up to five more on a tram.
Dutch authorities have reportedly apprehended the main suspect in Monday’s deadly shooting on a tram in the city of Utrecht.
Utrecht police said Monday that they have detained a man suspected of opening fire, killing three and wounding up to five more on the 24 Oktoberplein. Authorities had previously identified 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis, a Turkish national, as their primary suspect in the manhunt but deleted a tweet with his image.
In a new tweet, the police said the detainee was the same man previously seen in images and information disseminated by authorities.
The Netherlands’s National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) unit said earlier on Monday that it had raised the city’s threat level to a maximum of 5 while the rest of the country remained at level 4.
