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Roosendaal Station Reopens After Suspicious Package Seized

Investigators are testing the item to confirm any risk.

Overview

  • Police reopened the station after seizing a suspicious package from a train, and the item is now under examination.
  • An earlier report of an unknown object inside a carriage prompted an evacuation of the station.
  • An explosives specialist, known in Dutch as a TEV officer, assessed the scene as part of standard protocol.
  • Officers had the train halted at a distance from the platform as a safety step.
  • NS suspended all services to and from Roosendaal during the operation, with about fifty people cleared from the station and no replacement transport provided.