Police are hunting for suspect who shot and killed at least 3 people in the Netherlands

Netherlands police at the shooting scene.
(Image credit: Robin Van Lonkhuijsen / Getty Images)

A gunman who reportedly killed at least three people and injured several more on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht on Monday is still at large. The city's mayor confirmed the three fatalities. Utrecht police are still currently hunting for a 37-year-old, Turkey-born man named Gokman Tanis, whom they have identified as the suspect in the shooting.

Counter-terror police have said that the shooting "appears to be a terrorist attack" and the security threat level has been temporarily raised to its highest point in the province of Utrecht, BBC reports.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.