Small fire in parliament buliding

The parliament building on the Binnenhof complex in The Hague was evacuated for a time on Thursday afternoon after a small fire in the personnel restuarant. Around a hundred civil servants and a handful of MPs had to wait outside until the building was declared safe.

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