ROTTERDAM (Netherlands), Sept 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A stabbing near the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam on Thursday evening left one dead and two seriously injured, including the perpetrator, said the Dutch police on Friday.
Witnesses told the police that the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” when he was eventually arrested and hospitalized with another injured person, according to the Dutch national broadcaster NOS and the newspaper De Telegraaf.
The incident was presumed to start from a nearby parking garage, where one person was severely injured. The stabber then went upstairs and attacked a second victim there, who did not survive.
Witnesses said the man, who stabbed random victims with two large knives, clearly intended to victimize as many as possible. A sports instructor teaching under the bridge managed to overpower the killer before the police arrived.
Police didn’t release the identities of the suspect or the victims of the stabbing, in line with Dutch privacy guidelines.
A sports instructor, Reniël Renato David Litecia, said that he hit the attacker with two sticks after seeing him attack somebody and managed to take the knives and throw them away. — NNN-AGENCIES