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Dutch gunman storms TV studio

Video: Real drama for Dutch broadcaster as a man with a fake gun demands live airtime.

Now that this has happened for real, how long before it become a drama plot…?

A man wielding a fake gun has been arrested in a studio of Dutch news broadcaster NOS, causing the main evening bulletins to be cancelled.

Staff were evacuated from a building in the Media Park in the city of Hilversum.

According to NOS director Jan de Jong, a man, carrying what appeared to be a long pistol, had wanted to go to the main evening news studio but instead a guard took him to a studio where daytime bulletins are broadcast.

When the channel came back on the air, it broadcast video of the man wandering about a studio, reportedly demanding airtime.

Armed police then stormed into the studio and overpowered him.

Prosecutors later said that the man, aged 19, was in police custody.

Source: BBC

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