AMSTERDAM—Dutch police on Saturday said they had arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of stabbing three youths on a street in the center of The Hague late on Friday.
Police said the suspect, described as having no fixed address, had been brought to a police station for questioning.
The three people injured, two 15-year-old girls and a 13-year-old boy were all discharged from hospital late on Friday.
National broadcaster NOS quoted two eyewitnesses as saying the girls had run screaming from the street into a nearby store.
Dutch police secure a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, on Nov. 29, 2019. Phil Nijhuis/AP Photo
One said an "athletic" man fled the scene, jumping easily over obstacles.
The area was cordoned off for hours as first aid workers helped victims and police combed the area for clues.
The Netherlands had already been shocked by a similar stabbing in Amsterdam a year ago when two Americans were injured in a knife attack that prosecutors say had a “terrorist motive.”
Earlier Friday in London, a man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people, killing two, before he was tackled by members of the public and then fatally shot by officers on London Bridge, authorities said.
The scene on London Bridge in the aftermath of a reported shooting, in London, Britain on Nov. 29, 2019 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Luke Poulton via Reuters
The Associated Press contributed to this report.