Dutch police sealed off the shopping centre of Alphen aan den Rijn after the shootings a shooter at the Netherlands has killed five people and injured 11 before taking his own lifeofficials say.The murders took place at a shopping centre held in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn, about 25 km (15 miles) southwest of Amsterdam.
The Mayor of the city, said the man opened fire with an automatic weapon and then a bullet is fired.
The gunman has not been formally identified, and no explanation for the shooting has been reported.
Dutch media quoted witnesses who said the man had blond hair and is about 25 years. It has been described as to wear a leather jacket and camouflage pattern trousers.
PanicMayor Bas Eenhoorn called the incident "unprecedented" in the city of about 70,000 people.
He says four wounded were in critical condition and five serious injuries.
"A man with an automatic weapon, which we cannot reveal the identity has begun shooting and killed five people, then himself," said the Mayor.
"It is hardly credible that our town could know this slaughter and a day as beautiful as that,"he says."
A trader in the centre of Ridderhof, said that the gunman appeared to be shooting people at random.
"There was panic in the shopping centre, many people running," said the dealer, Maart Verbeek, our Dutch television chain.
"I see the attacker from walking and I'm going inside the store... and I see passes with a big gun."
A resident told the BBC that the shooting was unusual, although it was the second in the region this month.
"It is odd that something like this has happened in this district." Usually nothing ever happens here. But it is the second shooting in two weeks, "said Thomas Aantjes.
On 2 April, two people were killed in a shooting in the same district of the city. Officials did not link the two incidents.
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