Amsterdam Apple store hostage crisis ends with robot involvement

In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a hostage crisis has taken place at an Apple store. Police has managed to detain a man with a firearm suspected of taking people inside the store hostage, British news portal The Guardian reports.
The crisis unfolded in the Dutch city on Tuesday, February 22, an police had deployed several special units to «get the situation under control» after being alerted of an armed robbery at 5.40 pm. It had rapidly transformed into a hostage situation.
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Police said the gunman was «lying on the street and a robot was examining him for explosives» in front of the store in Leidseplein in the heart of the Dutch city.
The last hostage held in the store was safe, they added.
«Since the start of the hostage taking … several people have managed to leave the store,» they said earlier.
According to the BBC, the man, who had a gun, was searched for explosives by a robot as he lay seriously injured on the ground. A 27-year-old man was arrested and treated by medics, police said.