4 hours Ago
Panic on Board
The passenger, 19-year-old Ilayda, filmed the aftermath. She said the bus was heading along Slotermeerlaan from Sloterdijk toward Schiphol when it suddenly hit the brakes near Plein 40-45, at around 10:30 p.m. Screams filled the bus. Ilayda first feared that somebody had been hurt. Outside, it seemed as if two people were fighting on the tram tracks, and then came a loud bang.
Looking around, she saw that the window in the door was damaged. She was sitting right behind that door, so she got up to let the driver know. The bullet, she said, came in exactly where passengers tap in and out. Had anyone been standing there, she added, things could have ended very differently.
Police Appeal for Witnesses
The driver kept going until the next stop, where every passenger got off. A police spokesperson said officers received a report of a shooting on Slotermeerlaan just before 10:30 p.m. The spokesperson also said it is quite possible that a bullet passed through the moving bus. Detectives are looking into what happened, and police have asked anyone who saw the incident to come forward.
