A 27-year-old man died in hospital from his injuries sustained after an hour-long hostage incident at an Apple store in Amsterdam.
On Tuesday, an armed man stormed the store, holding one worker hostage and demanding €200 million (£165 million; $230 million) in cryptocurrencies.
After sprinting out of the building to pursue the captive, who had managed to flee, the suspect was intentionally hit by a police car.
An investigation is now ongoing.
The suspect has not been officially identified, although police have stated that he is an Amsterdam resident with a criminal background. They are yet to come up with a motive yet.
They said that an investigation discovered explosives on the suspect’s body, but that they were not ready to detonate.
Officers were dispatched to the Apple store in the Leidseplein neighborhood of the Dutch capital at 17:40 local time (16:40 GMT) on Tuesday after the camouflage-clad suspect entered the facility. Several individuals escaped the store, while four others took refuge in a cupboard.
Images on Dutch media appeared to show the man flashing a gun in one hand while holding a person in the other. The gunman sent photos to the AT5 television station in Amsterdam that appeared to show bombs strapped to his body.
When water was provided to the store at the request of the gunman, the hostage was able to escape after nearly five hours.
The hostage – a Bulgarian guy, not a British man as earlier reported – had performed a “heroic role” in the standoff forcing a breakaway, according to Amsterdam police head Frank Paauw.
“We are tremendously grateful and glad that our workers and customers in Amsterdam are safe following this horrific incident,” Apple stated in a statement.
