One person was killed and several others were hurt in a multi-vehicle traffic accident on Friday night in Rucphen, Noord-Brabant. Separately, one person was killed and other passengers were hurt when a car careened off a Gouda road and rolled over into water. Another rollover accident in Gelderland also left a 72-year-old woman dead.
A shooting just after midnight in Arnhem left two people injured. Several people were arrested in the area of the shooting, though it was unclear whether police captured those responsible for the incident. Gunshots rang out on Wildervankstraat just before 12:40 a.m. on Sunday. Police found the victims when they arrived at the scene in the Vredenburg neighborhood of Arnhem-Zuid. "They were transported to the hospital and are receiving further treatment for their injuries," police said in a brief statement. The condition of the victims was not revealed.
Emergency services workers tackling incidents across the Netherlands were repeatedly assaulted during the New Year's Eve period, leaving dozens of police officers injured. Incidents reported in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and smaller cities involved police officers and fire fighters being pelted with powerful firecrackers. The police unions called for an immediate end to violence targeting emergency workers.
An underage boy was seriously injured in the village of Doornspijk in the province of Gelderland on Friday morning due to an incident involving illegal fireworks, according to a police report released on Friday. Omroep Gelderland reported that he may have lost his hand. Another boy also involved in the incident was injured.