THE HAGUE, Netherlands: Dutch police say that a man has been taken to the hospital after reportedly setting himself on fire in the Turkish consulate in the port city of Rotterdam.
Police spokesman Gijs van Nimwegen says officers were called to the consulate around 9 a.m. (0800 GMT) Monday to deal with reports of a self-immolation.
Van Nimwegen declined to confirm that the man set himself ablaze, saying that police do not give out details about cases of attempted suicide.
Nobody else was injured and Van Nimwegen says police did not increase security at the diplomatic post following the incident.
The identity and nationality of the man were not released.
The consulate could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Netherlands: Man ‘set himself on fire’ at Turkish consulate
Netherlands: Man ‘set himself on fire’ at Turkish consulate
- Officers were called to the consulate to deal with reports of a self-immolation
- Nobody else was injured and police did not increase security at the diplomatic post
Suicide attacker behind deadly Islamabad mosque blast: security source
- The blast killed 15 people and wounded at least 80, local authorities say
- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the blast
ISLAMABAD: A suicide attacker was responsible for a deadly blast at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad on Friday, a security source said.
“The attacker was stopped at the gate and detonated himself,” the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The blast killed 15 people and wounded at least 80, local authorities said.
A senior police official said, on condition of anonymity, that the “explosion occurred after Friday prayers in a Shiite mosque.”
A statement from local authorities in Islamabad said 15 people were killed in the attack at the mosque in the Tarlai area of the city, adding that the “number of patients brought to various hospitals has exceeded 80.”
An AFP photographer outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital saw dozens of wounded people arriving.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the blast.
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