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Four people have been injured following a stabbing in central Amsterdam, police say.<\/p>\n
The suspect, who has been arrested and will be questioned later on Thursday, was overpowered with the help of a local resident and taken to hospital with a leg injury, police say. <\/p>\n
A small area of the central Dam Square remains cordoned off for forensic investigation.<\/p>\n
Dutch police say they do not have any details on the condition of the four injured people, and the motive for the incident remains unclear. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Police initially cordoned-off a large area around the Royal Palace in Dam Square, where the emergency helicopter landed.<\/p>\n
Images showed a person on a stretcher being loaded into the back of an ambulance. <\/p>\n
The injured people were evacuated from the area but an AFP news agency reporter at the scene said there was still a heavy police presence and ambulances.<\/p>\n
A witness told the Dutch paper De Telegraaf that they suddenly heard an “icy scream” and after that panic broke out in the area.<\/p>\n
A shop assistant also said that she heard a lot of shouting and screaming and that people started running, the paper reported.<\/p>\n
Witnesses quoted by local media said a girl and an elderly woman were stabbed.<\/p>\n
Amsterdam outlet Het Parool quoted a witness saying he approached a girl after hearing a noise. As someone else shouted to call an ambulance, he saw a knife “sticking out from the girl’s back, between her shoulders”, the paper quotes him as saying.<\/p>\n
The police have not confirmed who has been stabbed.<\/p>\n
Earlier, a police spokesperson told Dutch media there had been reports of a robbery. <\/p>\n
Police had initially said that five people were injured in the stabbing, but in an update said one of the injured was the suspect.<\/p>\n
They are urging anyone with images of the incident to upload them as evidence. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n