Deadly stabbings in Dutch city

At least two people were killed and several others wounded in stabbing incidents in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht on Thursday evening, police say.

The police said in a statement there were two stabbing incidents with a few hundred metres of each other in a residential neighbourhood in northern Maastricht, which borders Germany and Belgium. 

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