Woman seriously injured by explosion at front door in Nieuwkuijk

A woman in the small Brabant town of Nieuwkuijk was seriously injured last night by an explosion at her home. The explosive device went off at the front door of the house around 2:40 am. The explosion caused the windows on the upper and lower floors to explode and the bottom of the front door to be blown away. Roof tiles also came loose.

A local resident says otherwise Omroep Brabant before the explosion she heard a gunshot, which she said lasted about half a minute. She suspects that the woman, the resident of the house, came towards the sound.

The victim was removed from the home by ambulance personnel and taken to hospital with serious injuries. The police are investigating the explosion and are asking witnesses or people with photographs to come forward. No one has been arrested yet.

The incident in the town between Waalwijk and Den Bosch can be added to a long list of explosions. This year the number of attacks is likely to increase, mostly with heavy fireworks. over a thousand out. That number has been increasing rapidly in recent years. In 2021, 212 were counted, the following year 439 and last year 901, according to a report. police report which was released earlier this week.

Initially, the police assumed that most attacks were related to conflicts in the criminal environment, but after analyzing events from 2023, that view has changed . has changed.

Only one in five assaults is related to criminal activity, such as disputes over stolen drugs. In the new study, the police estimate that more than half of the incidents have to do with ‘house-and-garden conflicts’.

It is special that someone is injured in an explosion, such as last night in Nieuwkuijk. Intimidation is the main goal, police say. However, according to researchers, it is only a matter of time before there are more victims.