
A 32-year-old man was arrested following the shootings which began in a house and continued in a classroom in a medical facility nearby.
Police did not specify exactly how many people had been killed.
A suspect wearing combat fatigues was later arrested on the Erasmus Medical Center’s helipad.
Video from the scene showed heavily armed police wearing body armour entering the hospital, while people, some holding up their hands, left the building.
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