Dutch police uncover torture chamber

Dutch police discovered a soundproofed shipping container used by criminals as a torture chamber equipped with a dentist’s chair to hold prisoners. Six people were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and hostage taking, police said. Seven shipping containers were found in a warehouse on June 22 in the southern town of Wouwse Plantage. The other six containers were used as prison cells. The site was found during an investigation into a man, 40, from The Hague, who is suspected of drug trafficking and plotting an execution. Police also confiscated police clothing, stolen vehicles, weapons and 24 kilograms of MDMA.