Mass shooting in Netherlands leaves several people dead  in Rotterdam 

By Edward Era Barbacena 

People have been killed in the Netherlands after a man wearing military clothing opened fire at a Rotterdam home and a hospital, police said.

City police said a shooting erupted at a classroom inside the Erasmus Medical Center, a university hospital.

Another person was injured earlier inside a residence on Heiman Dullaertplein about 1.5km away in the Lloydkwartier neighbourhood of the port city.

‘The two shooting incidents in Rotterdam resulted in fatalities,’ police said on X, formerly known as Twitter, at 5.30pm local time.

Officers are informing the next of kin before realising any further details.

Rotterdam police said an hour earlier that a man, 32, had been arrested.

He was handcuffed on the hospital’s helipad. Detectives do not suspect there was a second shooter.

‘His possible role and involvement in the shooting incidents is being investigated,’ the force said.

RTV Rijnmond reported that two children were inside the home at the time of the shooting.

There was a fire at the house, which has since been put out, the Dutch news agency NOS said.

Photographs posted on social media show another fire tearing through the teaching hospital, which is affiliated with Erasmus University.

An eyewitness told the Dutch news network RTL that a ‘molotov cocktail’ was allegedly used.

The medical student claimed up to five bullets were fired on the fourth floor of the hospital before the weapon was thrown.