AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch police said they had arrested the driver of a car that caught fire on Amsterdam’s central Dam Square on Thursday following an explosion in the vehicle.
The driver, a 50-year-old Dutchman, is suspected of having caused the fire and having possibly done so on purpose, police said. Nobody was hurt in the incident except the man arrested.
Police said camera footage had shown the fire was caused by an explosion, which happened among a crowd of people on the busy square.
Images on social media show a man with burning clothes close to a small red car with flames billowing from its windows on Dam Square. Police are seen extinguishing the flames on the man before taking him into custody.
Police sealed off the square while explosives experts investigated the vehicle.
Last week, a man injured five people near Dam Square in a stabbing rampage. Police identified the suspect in that incident as a 30-year-old Ukrainian national from the eastern Donetsk region, who prosecutors said had acted with terrorist intent.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Editing by Ros Russell and Gareth Jones)
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