Children see violent shooting close to the school, Amsterdam – Telegraaf.nl

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Photo: Michel van Bergen

fourth-graders saw around half nine, just before the lessons started, how the 42-year-old man at a house on the Iwan Kantemanplein under fire was taken. The man remained very calm and was transported to the hospital. He does not live in the house where he was shot, but lives in Amsterdam. Or the victim was an acquaintance of the police, a spokesman said. “We think that’s not relevant to report.”

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A police spokesman says the man was shot when he went to a car ran, and that he then returned to a house in fled. The police call it a targeted action. Further research should rule out whether the man has escaped a winding-up.

A witness saw two gunmen on a scooter then a younger boy under fire names. Who ran a street, and escaped. The police does not confirm that a second person was shot.

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another witness says: ,,I just had my child at school, dropped off and was only thinking of his safety. And that I had to make that I got away."

Worried parents are also currently in the classes left to see how the children go. One of them tells that there was a panic when the news reached the school. Parents and children ran to the inside.

Locked in the school

Fathers and mothers came hours after the shooting to the outside, because they were in the school were locked. In the Horizon was just before the start of the lessons screamed that there was shot and that, therefore, the doors closed were held. Parents talked about quiet teachers, who have everything under control there. In most classes, lessons are already started.

A father says his daughter has seen how the man shot. More children witnessed the shooting, which according to people in the neighborhood pretty intense. The shots, from a weapon with a long barrel, would be a considerable noise made.

state Police

The police has a part of the school playground and deposited. Also, there was military police present. Agents make hunting the two shooters. They are wearing black clothing.

at a quarter To nine is a few blocks away, a burned-out scooter with three wheels found.