BREAKING: Shooting suspect arrested in Utrecht after three killed on tram.
The suspect in the deadly tram shooting in the Dutch city of Utrecht has been arrested, police said.
Police earlier pictured a man they had named as the suspect following the feared terror incident today, which saw three people killed.Police released this image of suspect Gokmen Tanis, who has now been arrested Dutch counter terrorism police are still on the scene in Utrecht, Netherlands after a gunman killed three people and wounded nine others
Utrecht’s police chief Rob van Bree this evening told reporters: ‘I just heard that the suspect we were hunting has been arrested.’Counter-terrorism police continue to investigate and officers have said they are considering the possibility of a ‘terrorist motive’.Utrecht police cordoned off a square at a tram station outside the city centre as emergency services were called to the scene.
Initial reports claimed a man in a tram on the way to Utrecht CS pulled out a weapon and shot several people.Emergency services were called to reports of a gunman opening fire this morning ‘The police are asking you to look out for 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis in connection with the incident this morning,’ Utrecht police said on Twitter earlier.The father of the suspect, Mehmet Tanis, who lives in Turkey, earlier told the private Demiroren news agency that he hadn’t spoken to his son in 11 years.
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