A 34-year-old woman from Emmeloord whose baby was bitten to death by a dog in August will be prosecuted. The dog, which is a mix of an American Staffordshire terrier and a pitbull, has been put down.The woman is being charged with "culpable homicide and failure to ensure that a dangerous animal is kept harmless," a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service said. The spokesperson confirmed earlier reporting by regional broadcaster Omroep Flevoland.
The emergency services issued NL Alerts for two major fires in Almere and Haarlem. Firefighters are still trying to get the blaze in a thrift store and clothing storage unit on an industrial terrain in Almere under control. The fire in an appliance store in Haarlem has been extinguished. Locals in both municipalities are urged to stay out of the smoke. As far as is known, no one got hurt.
Emergency services workers found one child dead, and a sibling injured in an Almere home on Tuesday, police confirmed in a statement the following morning. The mother of both children was taken into police custody while the case was under investigation. Police found the children in an apartment on Bovenloop in the Almere Haven district at about 11:30 p.m. Sources close to the investigation told the Telegraaf that the deceased child was a one-year-old baby, and the injured child is a two-year-old girl.
There was an explosion reported at a housing complex in Almere on Wednesday. The front of the building on the Bolaciahof is heavily damaged, according to a police spokesperson. Another explosion was also reported at a commercial property in Vlaardingen, and two cases where explosives may have been found brought police out to Urmond and Geleen in Limburg. The Almere explosion led to the evacuation of ten homes, the police spokesperson there said. The inhabitants of those homes were being housed elsewhere. There were no injuries.