Dutch Telephone Outage Takes Out Nation’s Emergency Number

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A major telephone outage hit the Netherlands on Monday, taking down the country’s emergency number and leaving many businesses and municipalities unreachable by phone. Police sent officers onto the streets so that people could approach them for emergency help and issued an alternative emergency phone number an hour after the outage began around 4 p.m. (1400 GMT). “We’re appealing to everybody who wants to report an emergency and needs help to … go onto the street.

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