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News about sports, music, Ceuta, and fires (Monday, August 3)

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AZ won the Johan Cruijff Shield with 0-4 against PSV in Eindhoven. PSV played early on with ten men. Joey Veerman received a red card after a foul on Mexx Meerdink.

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, Madonna performed in Amsterdam. Her show at AFAS Live started almost an hour late. She sang for about half an hour, and Kylie Minogue also came on stage.

Morocco says that social media and human traffickers increased the crossing to Ceuta. A wrong interpretation of a Spanish statement also played a role. Spain has now confirmed 72 deaths, and many families are searching for missing relatives.

In Blankenberge, a 74-year-old Dutch man got his car stuck on a flight of stairs. According to the police, he followed a navigation app through the city center. The man had not consumed alcohol, and his car had to be removed.

In Zwolle, a waste fire spread to a flat apartment. As a result, sixteen apartments had to be evacuated. Multiple homes are severely damaged and uninhabitable. In Amsterdam, a fire destroyed seven caravans on the residential site 't Landje, but no one was injured.

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