A hostage-taker puts his arm around the neck of an hostage during a robbery at the Apple Store on Leidseplein in Amsterdam on Feb 22, 2022. A man with a firearm was in the vicinity of an Amsterdam shop, police in the Netherlands said Feb 22, 2022 adding that officers were at the scene said by local media to be an Apple store. The gunman has since been overpowered. — AFP
THE HAGUE: A man with a firearm who held several people hostage at Apple’s flagship store in central Amsterdam was overpowered late Tuesday after a siege lasting several hours, police said, adding that the last of the hostages had been freed.
Police had deployed several special units to “get the situation under control” after being alerted of an armed robbery at 5.40pm (1640 GMT) which had rapidly transformed into a hostage situation.
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A hostage-taker puts his arm around the neck of an hostage during a robbery at the Apple Store on Leidseplein in Amsterdam on Feb 22, 2022. A man with a firearm was in the vicinity of an Amsterdam shop, police in the Netherlands said Feb 22, 2022 adding that officers were at the scene said by local media to be an Apple store. The gunman has since been overpowered. — AFP
A man in camouflage clothing lies next to a police robot in a street after the hostage-taking ended in Amsterdam on Feb 22, 2022. A man with a firearm was in the vicinity of an Amsterdam shop, police in the Netherlands said February 22, 2022 adding that officers were at the scene said by local media to be an Apple store. — AFP
Dutch police officers stand near an Apple store in central Amsterdam during a hostage incident in the store, in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Feb 22, 2022. — Reuters
An ambulance transporting the injured hostage taker leaves the scene in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Feb 22, 2022, where the armed person was holed up in the Amsterdam Apple Store with at least one hostage in an hours-long standoff with scores of police massed outside. — AP
Police special intervention units and rescue workers are seen as the injured hostage taker is carried into an ambulance in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Feb 22, 2022, where the armed person was holed up in the Apple Store with at least one hostage in an hours-long standoff with scores of police massed outside. — AP
A police officer stands next to a police vehicle near an Apple store in central Amsterdam during a hostage incident in the store, in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Feb 22, 2022. — Reuters
