Five people were injured, including two Americans, in a "serious" stabbing attack that occurred in broad daylight in Amsterdam's city center on Thursday, police said. The suspected assailant is in custody and a motive remains under investigation into what authorities are considering might have been a random attack,

A knife-wielding assailant in Amsterdam seriously wounded five people — including two from the United States, one from Belgium and one from Poland — in a stabbing attack Thursday on a busy shopping street,

Amsterdam — A knife-wielding assailant was among five people seriously wounded in a stabbing attack on a busy shopping central in Amsterdam, police in the Dutch city said on Thursday. One person has been arrested. The attacks happened near Dam Square, in central Amsterdam, in the late afternoon.