POLICE SAY THEY FOUND GANG’S TORTURE CHAMBER

AMSTERDAM dutch police said they discovered a torture chamber used by criminals for interrogations inside a shipping container, equipped with a dentist’s chair to hold prisoners and sound-proofing to stifle their screams.

Six people were detained on suspicion of kidnapping and hostage taking, the national police said in a statement.

Seven shipping containers were found in a warehouse on June 22 in the town of Wouwse Plantage near the southern border with Belgium. Six of the containers were used as prison cells.

“Suspects called the seventh container the ‘treatment room’, which was very clearly meant for and prepared to torture people,” the statement said.