Police have raced to the scene of a car crash in Amsterdam after a vehicle reportedly carrying explosives veered off the road amid a pursuit. Officers were alerted to a ram-raid in the German town of F\u00fcrth at around 4.30am on Tuesday and tracked the vehicle used, a BMW M1, to Amsterdam-Osdorp.<\/p>\n
The police, the military and other emergency services are on scene on Nierkerkestraat. A police spokesperson said multiple people fled the scene after the chase, with witnesses reporting that they saw four men get out of the car.<\/p>\n
Homes within a 100-metre radius of where the car was discovered were evacuated as a precaution while the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team investigates.<\/p>\n
The Special Intervention Service (DSI) also searched some homes in the area to see if the suspects were hiding there.<\/p>\n
A police helicopter was seen circling above the area and the street has been cordoned off.<\/p>\n
German police said nothing was taken during the ram-raid on the ATM, though the building was severely damaged and a fire broke out.<\/p>\n
Dutch outlet Nos said the operation in Amsterdam has since been upgraded to a major incident involving a coordinated effort between emergency services.<\/p>\n
Videos shared on social media show a number of ambulances at the scene on standby.<\/p>\n
Police have urged any witnesses or anyone with footage of the incident to come forward as their investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have raced to the scene of a car crash in Amsterdam after a vehicle reportedly carrying explosives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,66091,44112,200,66092,3618,63714],"class_list":["post-136731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam-car-crash","tag-explosives","tag-netherlands","tag-osdorp-incident","tag-police","tag-police-pursuit"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116999561692530320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}