Dutch police arrest man, 22, in connection with suspected terror threat that led to Rotterdam concert being canceled

Police arrested a 22-year-old man Thursday in the Netherlands in connection with a suspected terror threat that led authorities to cancel a concert in Rotterdam hours earlier.

The suspect, who has Dutch nationality, was detained at his home in the southern region of Brabant in the early hours, a Rotterdam police spokesman told CNN. The property was also searched.

Dutch authorities called off the concert Wednesday evening following a tip-off from Spain's Guardia Civil, which passed on the information after its intelligence services came across it, a spokeswoman for the organization told CNN

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