Overview
- A man wounded in an early‑morning shooting on the Nieuwe Binnenweg later died in hospital and police have arrested seven people as investigations into the case continue.
- A house on Pretoriusstraat in Ridderkerk‑Bolnes was destroyed by a nighttime fire; the Polish resident says a fatbike battery charger caused the blaze but neighbours doubt that account and police have made the property a place of inquiry and taken the resident for questioning.
- ProRail completed repairs and a successful test run after a lightning strike hit a switching cabinet, allowing train service between Groningen and Zuidhorn to restart following the storm-related outage.
- Separate battery-related fires were quickly contained — staff at a Nieuwegein waste company used a powder extinguisher on a bicycle battery in a container and crews put out a meterkast fire in Gouda and a schuur fire in Groenlo — underscoring the growing hazard posed by lithium batteries.
- Local infrastructure and planning disruptions included a technical power fault that left about 1,000 addresses in Delft without electricity for hours and the Flemish minister again refusing a permit for a commercial consumer‑fireworks storage in Baarle‑Hertog, a decision welcomed by neighbours though legal options remain for the applicant.