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Utrecht tram shooting: Tram doors wouldn't open when the gunman started firing, recalls witness

One of the other witnesses on board the tram reported that the doors of the tram would not open immediately when they tried to get out

Daan Molenaar, a man who was reportedly in the Utrecht tram when 37-year-old gunman Gökmen Tanis opened fire, recalled the terrifying incident on a radio show: "It feels rather surreal, what happened this morning."

The witness said that he had been standing at the front of the tram when the Turkish-born gunman opened fire. He said that it happened to be good luck for him but he understood only later how close he had come to losing his life. Molenaar said that he had not realized what had happened in the tram in the beginning. 

NOS Journal reported that, according to Molenaar, the tram had stopped at a curve in the track and the doors were closed. He said he looked outside and saw a woman who was further down the road. Molenaar said on the NOS Radio 1 show: "At first I thought it was an accident, someone had been run over. That happens often on that tram line."