A road affected by garbage as a result of a fireplace in a rubbish truck | A person with a strolling stick falls on subway tracks

A rubbish truck needed to dump the load as a result of the rubbish was on fireplace. That occurred on the Zwedenstraat in Rotterdam-West. The hearth might have been attributable to a battery.

A blind or visually impaired particular person fell on the metro observe on Melanchtonweg on Thursday morning round 7:30 am. It isn’t but identified how that would have occurred. The person was injured within the fall. In accordance with the police, it was an accident.

The person with a strolling stick was faraway from the trail after the autumn and was handled by ambulance personnel, in accordance with media reviews on the scene. The person was stated to have been taken to hospital. It isn’t clear what his damage is.

Metro site visitors to the Melanchtonweg metro station was (or was) briefly suspended.

Customs seized over 6 million unlawful cigarettes throughout a search within the port of Rotterdam. The examine was carried out on the idea of threat choice.

The cigarettes seized are ‘illicit whites’. These are cigarettes which can be typically allowed exterior the EU, however not within the Netherlands. If the cigarettes will not be seized, the state would lose 2.5 million euros in excise taxes.

On the evening from Wednesday to Thursday, a pickup truck burned down on Aalscholverlaan in Vlaardingen. That occurred round 5:00 am. The hearth brigade may now not save the entrance and inside of the automobile.

The media on the positioning say that arson has not but been dominated out. No accidents have been reported through the incident.

Round midnight, a automotive driver misplaced management and crashed right into a publish. This occurred on the intersection of Adriaan Volkerlaan with the Groene Tuin in South Rotterdam.

It isn’t clear how this might have occurred. Journalists on the scene say that the motive force was taken to the police station, probably for driving below the affect. Nobody was injured within the accident.

The police managed site visitors on the Maasboulevard in Rotterdam on Wednesday evening. Autos have been looked for, amongst different issues, prohibited substances. Breathalyzer and drug checks have been additionally carried out.