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The Netherlands : A rock concert canceled in Rotterdam over terror threat

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A Music concert was canceled in Rotterdam, the Netherland after the police stopped a van with Spanish plates carrying gas cylinders near Rotterdam Maassilo on Wednesday, The Guardian reports today.

Allah-Las, an American band from California was scheduled to perform yesterday in Rotterdam before the concert was canceled. There is no evidence for the moment whether the van driver is connected to the attacks in Barcelona. However, he was held in custody and will be questioned about the five bottles of gas found in his vehicle.

According to the CNN, Roland Ekkers, Rotterdam Police press officer that «it can also be someone who was going to a camping site, but with the threat that we have, and what we found in the van, we decided to investigate».

He also added that the van driver is a Spaniard and that the gas bottles are being examined by bomb experts.  

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