A man with a knife stabbed five people, including two Americans, in a busy shopping area of Amsterdam on Thursday afternoon, though police have not found a motive for the act.
A knife-wielding assailant in Amsterdam seriously wounded five people — including two from the United States, one from Belgium and one from Poland — in a stabbing attack Thursday on a busy shopping street, Dutch police said.
Five people were wounded in a stabbing attack near a popular tourist area in central Amsterdam, according to local police. The victims include citizens from the United States, Poland, and Belgium. The attack occurred shortly before 3:30 p.m.
Police received 'several reports of a stabbing incident' just before 3:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, March 27, near the Sint Nicolaasstraat in the city center of Amsterdam, Netherlands according to a police news release.
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