Teenager stabbed on Breda-area bus as father turns in two suspects

A confrontation between two groups of teenagers escalated into a stabbing and a robbery on a local bus in Prinsenbeek, near Breda, on Saturday night, Dutch police said. An 18-year-old man was taken to hospital with a bleeding wound after he was stabbed inside the bus; it was not yet clear what weapon was used.

The clash began on the Haverdijk after a group of eight to ten teenagers and young men challenged another group walking nearby, a police spokesman said, and the mood turned hostile after people in the two groups shouted at each other. As one group tried to board the bus, the last person in that group was pulled back out and beaten and robbed outside, police said; the victim was forced to transfer money to one of his attackers using his phone.

The 18-year-old already on the bus went to help as the other passenger was pulled out, but the doors closed and the bus pulled away before he realised he had been stabbed, Omroep Brabant reported. The driver stopped at a bus stop on Vincent van Goghstraat once he noticed the injury, and emergency services were called to treat the wounded passenger.

Police traced one suspect, a 17-year-old, through the bank account the robbery victim had been forced to transfer money to. Before officers could arrest him, his father brought him and his brother to the police station himself to turn them in, police said.

It was not yet clear whether either of the two brothers was responsible for the stabbing itself, and a police spokesman said further arrests remained possible as the investigation continued. How many passengers were on the bus at the time of the attack has not been made public, RTL Nieuws reported.