Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands: Dutch military police on Friday shot and wounded a man armed with a knife, who burst into their office at Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol airport, police told AFP. A worker at a fast food shop told AFP she saw a man “waving a knife around” before hearing a single shot. Schiphol airport is one of Europe’s top five busiest air hubs, handling a record 63.6 million passengers in 2016, up from 58 million in 2015. Past scaresOpened in 1916 as a military airport, Schiphol became the country’s primary airport in 1949, lying about nine kilometres (five miles) southwest of the Dutch capital, Amsterdam. Schiphol was the scene of a late-night evacuation in April 2016 just a few weeks after the Brussels metro and airport suicide bombings when a drunken, homeless man sparked a security scare at the Dutch airport.

Source: Pakistan Today December 15, 2017 18:33 UTC