Two busy passenger trains collided head-on near an Amsterdam park, injuring scores of people including more than 50 seriously, a police spokesman said.

More than a dozen passengers have been injured in a collision between two trains in Amsterdam, reports say.

More than 100 people protesting over the outlawing of squatting at unused buildings in the Netherlands clashed with police in Amsterdam’s historic centre, throwing stones, starting fires and erecting barricades.

A BOMB blast blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in the Netherlands yesterday and extensively damaged the building in what police suspect was a revenge attack for the killing of a Dutch filmmaker last week.

A suspected bomb blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in a southern Dutch town and shattered windows across the street, days after a suspected Muslim radical killed a Dutch filmmaker, police said today. There were no reports of injuries.