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Thursday, 16 June 2016 - 08:25

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Irish tourist found stabbed in the back at Amsterdam hotel

An Irish tourist was injured in a stabbing incident near Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam during the early hours of Thursday morning. According to AT5, the tourist stumbled into the Crowne Plaza City Center Hotel on Keizersgracht with a stab wound in his back around 2:45 a.m. The hotel staff called the emergency services. The police and two ambulances responded to the scene. The Irish tourist was rushed to a hospital. Police officers are investigating the stabbing. The current scenario is that the tourist was the victim of a robbery or drug deal that went wrong.

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