The suspect ran towards the Batavierenstraat in the center of the city; he was dressed in dark clothes and had a hood on. It is the umpteenth explosion in the Maasstad. The night before, an explosive device also exploded just after midnight in a portico flat on Taandersstraat.
This year there have already been dozens of explosions at houses in Rotterdam. Many of those incidents are suspected by the police to be related to drug crime.