Amsterdam knife attacker who injured 2 Americans suspected of having 'terrorist motive,' prosecutors say

A antheral who stabbed 5 radical successful Amsterdam past week, including 2 Americans, apt had a "terrorist motive," Dutch prosecutors announced Tuesday. 

The suspect, identified by constabulary arsenic a 30-year-old Ukrainian from the Donetsk region, according to Reuters, was taken into custody Thursday aft a bystander reportedly overpowered him. 

"The antheral is suspected of 5 counts of attempted execution oregon manslaughter with a violent motive," the quality bureau quoted prosecutors arsenic saying Tuesday. 

Authorities identified the victims of the buying territory stabbing spree arsenic a 69-year-old antheral and 67-year-old pistillate from the U.S.; a 73-year-old pistillate from Belgium; a 26-year-old antheral from Poland; and a 19-year-old pistillate from Amsterdam. 

KNIFE-WIELDING MAN INJURES MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN AMSTERDAM, INCLUDING 2 AMERICANS 

Police officers are seen successful Dam Square successful Amsterdam connected March 27 aft a stabbing injured 5 radical successful a engaged commercialized buying thoroughfare adjacent to Dam Square. (Gene Medi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"The constabulary probe is successful afloat plaything and has afloat precedence astatine the moment. We anticipation to soon get much clarity astir the inheritance of this horrible stabbing," Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said past week. "Our hearts spell retired to the victims, their families and loved ones." 

Police said the fishy checked into a edifice successful Amsterdam the time earlier the attack, Reuters reported. 

2 PEOPLE KILLED IN KNIFE ATTACK IN GERMANY 

Police officers cordon disconnected an country aft a stabbing adjacent Dam Square successful cardinal Amsterdam connected Thursday, March 27. (AP/Peter Delong)

The Polish unfortunate has been released from a section hospital. As of Tuesday, the different victims stay successful aesculapian attraction and are successful unchangeable condition, Reuters added. 

A State Department spokesperson confirmed to Fox News that 2 U.S. citizens were injured during the incident. 

First responders assistance 1 of the victims of the stabbing successful Amsterdam connected March 27. (ANP/Inter Visual Studio/AFP via Getty Images)

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"The U.S. Department of State has nary higher precedence than the information and information of U.S. citizens overseas," the spokesperson said. "We are intimately pursuing reports of a stabbing successful Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We widen our sympathies to the victims and to the families of those affected. We tin corroborate that 2 U.S. citizens were injured." 

Fox News’ Greg Wehner, Nick Kalman and the Associated Press contributed to this report.