Dutch police stormed an apartment and arrested two people on Wednesday, ending a 14-hour stand-off that began when suspects sought in anti-terrorism probe wounded three officers in a hand grenade blast. A police spokesman said a special police unit entered the apartment in The Hague to end the drama that began when officers launched a pre-dawn raid on the building. Police said the suspects resisted arrested and threw a grenade at them. Heavily armed police had circled the building all day, which is located in a poor neighborhood of The Hague where almost half the population is immigrant. The area was cordoned off and the airspace over the city closed. One bystander estimated there were almost 200 police on the scene, including officers wearing balaclava masks and carrying machineguns.

A police anti-terror operation in The Hague has ended with the arrest of two suspects after a violent 14-hour siege, Dutch officials say. Three police officers were wounded in a grenade explosion earlier during the raid. Two of them remain in hospital. One of the suspects held was injured in the shoulder, officials said. Earlier, a Muslim school in Uden was burned down - part of a spate of attacks after the murder of film-maker Theo van Gogh, a critic of Islam.