A 35-year-old homeless man was arrested by the Dutch police. He is suspected of involvement in the knife attack that left three people injured in The Hague in the Netherlands on Friday night.

Dutch police said on Saturday they had arrested a man suspected of involvement in the knife attack that left three people wounded the day before on a shopping street in The Hague, without commenting on the nature of the attack. "Following the knife attack at Grote Marktstraat, a 35-year-old man has been arrested in the center of The Hague," the city police said on Twitter, adding that the man was had "no fixed address". "He will be transferred to a police station where he will be interrogated," the police added.

Several scenarios studied

The suspect had fled after the assault at a downtown department store, causing scenes of panic among the crowd of many customers on this "Black Friday" sale day. A police spokeswoman, Marije Kuiper, previously told AFP that the investigators were working on several scenarios. Asked about a possible terrorist mobile of the attack, she replied that it was "too early to speculate on such things". The investigators examined a knife found on the scene. The three victims were able to return home Friday night after being hospitalized. They are three teenagers, a thirteen year old boy and two fifteen year old girls. They did not know each other, according to the police, quoted by the ANP agency.

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In the Netherlands, the police originally said they were looking for "a man with a light brown complexion", aged between 40 and 50, dressed in a black coat, gray sweatpants and a scarf. to recant, saying that "thorough investigations" were still ongoing. The attack occurred in a department store of the "Grote Marktstraat", a busy thoroughfare of the city's largest shopping district not far from the Parliament, where the seat of the government is located. Images on social media showed panicky customers, fleeing away from the scene, a shopping street illuminated by Christmas decorations.