Man shot by police at Amsterdam airport after threatening crowds with knife
Police have shot a man threatening crowds with a knife at Amsterdam Airport this afternoon.
Dutch officers confirmed that military police had used a firearm on the suspect.
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport was evacuated, but has since been reopened.
The suspect has been detained and removed from the scene.
No details of his condition have been released.
‘A man at Schiphol was shot by the military police after threatening with a knife. Situation safe’, police said on Twitter.
The airport’s crowded entrance plaza, where trains arrive underground to arrivals and departures halls, was briefly evacuated, Tom Goemans, a spokesman for Schiphol, said.
But the airport tweeted later that the plaza was ‘reopened to the public again. A small part is still closed down’.
They added that ‘air traffic is experiencing no further consequences.’
Schiphol airport is one of Europe’s top five busiest air hubs, handling a record 63.6 million passengers in 2016, up from 58 million in 2015.
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