Number of murders down in 2006
The number of murders in the Netherlands this year has dropped sharply on previous years to 140, according to calculations by Elsevier magazine. Last year 201 people were murdered and in the 1990s, the annual Dutch murder rate was around 250, Elsevier said.
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