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One feared dead in Utrecht tram shooting in possible terrorist attack

UTRECHT - One person was feared dead and several suffered gunshot wounds on Monday in a tram in the central Dutch city of Utrecht and a hunt was underway for the gunman in an incident authorities said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

"In Utrecht there was a shooting at several locations," Counter-Terrorism Agency head Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg told a news conference. Local broadcaster RTV Utrecht quoted a witness of the tram incident as saying he had seen a woman lying on the ground amid some kind of confrontation and several men running away from the scene.

 

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