THE HAGUE, Jan 2 — A huge inferno gutted a 19th century Amsterdam church Thursday, as the Netherlands endured an unsettled New Year’s Eve with two dead from fireworks and “unprecedented” violence against police. The blaze broke out in the early hours at the Vondelkerk, a tourist attraction that has»»»

THE HAGUE: A huge inferno gutted a 19th century Amsterdam church Thursday, as the Netherlands endured an unsettled New Year’s Eve with two dead from fireworks and “unprecedented” violence against police. The blaze broke out in the early hours at the Vondelkerk, a tourist attraction that has overloo»»»

The Neo-Gothic Vondelkerk, a 19th-century Roman Catholic church, has been used for other purposes since the 1970s. ‌Two people have died in the Netherlands in fireworks ‍accidents, and there ‍were scattered instances of violence as the country celebrated the New Year. In a separate incident, a fire»»»

Meanwhile, similar incidents of the police being targeted by fireworks were reported in Belgium and two youngsters died in an accident involving home-made explosives in Germany. At least two people were killed in the Netherlands in a string of violent incidents on New Year’s Eve that Dutch police a»»»