A view of the scene after a gunman opened fire on tram passengers in Utrecht, Netherlands on March 18, 2019. Abdullah A??ran - Anadolu
Utrecht, Netherlands, March 18, 2019 (AFP) - Three people were killed and nine injured in a shooting in the Dutch city of Utrecht, the mayor said Monday, adding that authorities were working on the basis of it being a terrorist attack.
"At this stage, we can confirm three deaths and nine wounded, three of them seriously," Utrecht Mayor Jan van Zanen said in a video statement on Twitter.
"We are working on the principle that it was a terrorist attack," he added.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte had earlier said there were "possible deaths" and that a terrorist motive was "not excluded".
