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At least four people have been taken to the hospital after an explosion in an apartment building in The Hague, the Netherlands on Saturday, according to authorities. The blast took place around 6:15 a.m. local time, firefighters said, causing the three-story apartment building to partially collapse and set on fire. Five different apartments were affected by the explosion, they said. Police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen a car driving away from the scene at a very high speed shortly after the incident. The Dutch Urban Search and Rescue service said in a post on X that it had sent a rescue group to the scene, including four dog handlers and a structural engineer. By 11:30 a.m. local time, the fire was nearly out and rescue dogs were searching for possible victims, firefighters said. The dogs could not search the building for long, however, because there is a…