Holland: Police raid ends terror siege

Dutch police stormed a house tonight to end a day long siege of terror suspects holed up inside. Three suspects were arrested.

Special forces had launched an earlier, pre-dawn, raid on the house in the capital The Hague in the early hours as part of a “continuing investigation into terrorism”, Chief Prosecutor Han Moraal said.

He would not confirm whether it was related to the killing of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic radical suspected of links to al-Qaida.

The murder triggered a wave of retaliatory attacks on mosques and Muslim schools.

Moraal said three officers were injured in the morning raid when suspects inside lobbed a hand grenade. Police Chief Gerard Bouwman said two were in hospital with serious injuries. He also confirmed that forces exchanged fire with the suspects inside.

After a 15-hour stand-off, forces raided the house tonight.