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One dead, one injured in knife attack in Rotterdam to chants of “Allah is great!”

One dead, one injured in knife attack in Rotterdam to chants of "Allah is great!"

A person has died and another has resulted seriously injured this Thursday night in a stabbing in the Dutch city of Rotterdam.

A man armed with two knives He lunged at several people near the Erasmus Bridge while shouting “Allahu Akbar!” -“Wing is big!”-, according to several witnesses who told the Dutch press. The attacker has already been arrested and is injured.

A personal trainer who was in the area prevented more victims by beating the attacker unconscious, the newspaper reports. From Telegram.

Police spokesman, Wessel Stollehas stated that the agents are already investigating the attack, that there is currently “no indication of a motive” and that all possible scenarios are being investigated, including a possible Islamist attack.

The Dutch press has identified the coach as Reniël Renato David Litecia, who has reported that He hit the attacker with two sticks after seeing him attack someone and managing to grab the knives and throw them away.

According to the account, he initially thought it was a fight “but when I started running in that direction I saw that it was not a fight. It was a man with two long knives who was stabbing another young man. And when I started screaming, he turned around and started approaching everyone around him.”



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