The police in The Hague said on Tuesday that they had arrested three people in connection with an explosion at an apartment building in the Dutch city over the weekend that killed at least six people.
The explosion, which happened at 6:15 a.m. on Saturday, caused a fire and the partial collapse of a three-story block of apartments, according to fire officials. Four people with injuries were taken to a hospital. One person was treated on site.
Jan van Zanen, the mayor of The Hague, called it “an unprecedented disaster” in public remarks.
Rescue workers pulled a sixth body from the rubble in the early hours of Monday morning, and have since ended their search, fire officials in The Hague said.
Much about the explosion is still unknown. Officials have confiscated several cars, but they do not know what caused the blast or who was behind it.
