<p>Dutch police were hunting an assailant who stabbed three minors in The Hague's main shopping street as people looked for bargains on Black Friday.</p>.<p>The male attacker ran off after the incident at a department store in the city centre that caused scenes of panic among the crowds of shoppers.</p>.<p>"We are currently taking all scenarios into account," a police spokeswoman was quoted as saying by the ANP news agency about the attack, which came hours after two people died in a terror-related stabbing in London.</p>.<p>All three victims were minors, police said, without giving their ages. They were all later allowed to go home from hospital.</p>.<p>The stabbing happened at the Hudson's Bay department store in Grote Marktstraat, the city's biggest shopping area, which is lined with major retailers and brands.</p>.<p>Two teenage girls came running into the store after being stabbed, broadcaster NOS quoted witnesses as saying.</p>.<p>"I saw two girls screaming and running away. A man fled. He jumped very athletically over benches to get away. He looked like a cheetah," one witness told NOS.</p>.<p>"People were trying to get away. but that didn't work. I was shocked."</p>.<p>Police initially gave a description of a man they were looking for aged between 40 and 50 but later withdrew it, saying they were still investigating.</p>.<p>"We are still looking for the perpetrator," they said, adding that they were conducting "extensive investigations".</p>.<p>Images on social media showed shoppers running in panic away from the scene, on a nighttime retail street lit by Christmas fairy lights.</p>.<p>Members of the public gathered behind a police cordon on the street, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.</p>.<p>Police helicopters flew overhead and several emergency vehicles were on site, the correspondent said.</p>.<p>The stabbing took place not far from parliament, which is the seat of government for the Netherlands and home to many international organisations.</p>.<p>The US embassy warned its nationals in The Hague to avoid the area because of "reports of a security incident" and told them to let loved ones know they were safe.</p>.<p>In Britain, two members of the public were killed in a stabbing on London Bridge in the heart of the capital. The suspected attacker was then tackled by passers-by and shot dead by police.</p>.<p>The Netherlands has seen a series of terror attacks and plots, although not so far on the scale of those in other European countries.</p>.<p>In March four people were killed when a Turkish-born man opened fire on a tram in the city of Utrecht.</p>.<p>Dutch police on Monday arrested two suspected jihadists, one of them in The Hague, and charged them with planning a terror attack using suicide and car bombs.</p>.<p>Earlier this month a Pakistani man was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a plot to kill far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.</p>
<p>Dutch police were hunting an assailant who stabbed three minors in The Hague's main shopping street as people looked for bargains on Black Friday.</p>.<p>The male attacker ran off after the incident at a department store in the city centre that caused scenes of panic among the crowds of shoppers.</p>.<p>"We are currently taking all scenarios into account," a police spokeswoman was quoted as saying by the ANP news agency about the attack, which came hours after two people died in a terror-related stabbing in London.</p>.<p>All three victims were minors, police said, without giving their ages. They were all later allowed to go home from hospital.</p>.<p>The stabbing happened at the Hudson's Bay department store in Grote Marktstraat, the city's biggest shopping area, which is lined with major retailers and brands.</p>.<p>Two teenage girls came running into the store after being stabbed, broadcaster NOS quoted witnesses as saying.</p>.<p>"I saw two girls screaming and running away. A man fled. He jumped very athletically over benches to get away. He looked like a cheetah," one witness told NOS.</p>.<p>"People were trying to get away. but that didn't work. I was shocked."</p>.<p>Police initially gave a description of a man they were looking for aged between 40 and 50 but later withdrew it, saying they were still investigating.</p>.<p>"We are still looking for the perpetrator," they said, adding that they were conducting "extensive investigations".</p>.<p>Images on social media showed shoppers running in panic away from the scene, on a nighttime retail street lit by Christmas fairy lights.</p>.<p>Members of the public gathered behind a police cordon on the street, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.</p>.<p>Police helicopters flew overhead and several emergency vehicles were on site, the correspondent said.</p>.<p>The stabbing took place not far from parliament, which is the seat of government for the Netherlands and home to many international organisations.</p>.<p>The US embassy warned its nationals in The Hague to avoid the area because of "reports of a security incident" and told them to let loved ones know they were safe.</p>.<p>In Britain, two members of the public were killed in a stabbing on London Bridge in the heart of the capital. The suspected attacker was then tackled by passers-by and shot dead by police.</p>.<p>The Netherlands has seen a series of terror attacks and plots, although not so far on the scale of those in other European countries.</p>.<p>In March four people were killed when a Turkish-born man opened fire on a tram in the city of Utrecht.</p>.<p>Dutch police on Monday arrested two suspected jihadists, one of them in The Hague, and charged them with planning a terror attack using suicide and car bombs.</p>.<p>Earlier this month a Pakistani man was sentenced to 10 years in jail for a plot to kill far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders.</p>