Mayor Van Zanen: black day in The Hague, we must hold each other – five dead have already been recovered

Rescue services have already recovered five bodies from the rubble after a three-storey apartment building exploded this morning in the Dutch city of The Hague. Twelve hours after the facts, a resident was also pulled out alive from the rubble. According to Mayor Jan van Zanen, it is not clear how many people are still buried under the debris. “We are taking the worst case scenario into account,” he says. Follow the latest developments in this live blog.

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