The neighborhood in Purmerend will be suitable for a loud bang on Monday evening. An explosive goes off at a house on Slenkstraat. A neighbor rushes outside and himself extinguishes the fire in the home, his wife tells a day later at radio program De Breakfast Table of NH.
The residents are still in their home at the time of the explosion. According to local residents, one of the owners of the house is an old woman in a wheelchair. She is taken out of the house by her neighbors and checked by the ambulance. Buren is currently being taken care of.
“A very sweet woman,” says resident Fred de Boer a day later about the victim. He is angry: “What do you think what kind of fear they had to experience yesterday? Terrible.”
The neighborhood is being dropped off and the police are looking with the help of a police helicopter To the suspect.
Second explosion
A few hours later, deep into the night, a loud bang can be heard nearby. A second explosion goes off, a little further in the neighborhood. It is a house in the Kilstraat.
It is striking that last Wednesday an explosive was already going at a house in Kilstraat. According to the police, that was probably a fireworks bomb that went off around 00.05. Nobody was injured.
Neighborhood research
The police are present today in the neighborhood for a neighborhood investigation. Agents go all the houses in the neighborhood to speak to local residents about the two explosions. For both incidents, the police are still looking for both witnesses and suspects.
Both explosions involved big bangs. “That worries us as a police,” the police spokesman tells NH Radio. “That explosion in the Slenkstraat was in broad daylight and there were many people on the street.”
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