EDE, Netherlands (Reuters) -A hostage drama at a nightclub in the eastern Netherlands ended on Saturday when police arrested a man wearing a balaclava mask after he exited the club.
“The last hostage has just been released. One person has been arrested,” a police statement said. “We cannot share more information at this time.”
Journalists at the scene said a man left the nightclub with his hands in the air and was detained and put in a police vehicle.
Special police units had been deployed to the scene, a building in the centre of the town of Ede, to deal with a hostage situation, police said on social media.
There was no indication of a terrorist motive, police said earlier.
People were held at the nightclub by a man with weapons and explosives, national newspaper de Telegraaf had reported, citing several anonymous sources.
(Reporting by Piroschka van de Wouw, Anthony Deutsch and Toby SterlingEditing by William Maclean, Bernadette Baum and Frances Kerry)
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