The killings found southwest of Amsterdam in a busy shopping mall in the city of Alphen aan den Rijn, about 25 km (15 km).
The Mayor of the city, said the man opened fire with an automatic weapon and then shot himself.
The shooter has not formally been identified and no explanation for the shooting was reported.
Quoting witnesses, said Dutch media the man had blond hair and was about 25 years old. He was described as a jacket and leather pants wearing camouflage pattern.
PanicMayor BAS Eenhoorn called the incident "unprecedented" the city of about 70,000 people.
He said four injured were in a critical condition and five had serious wounds.
"A man not, began with an automatic weapon, whose identity we cannot reveal and killed five people and then themselves", the mayor said.
"It is hardly credible that our city could experience such slaughter, and a day so beautiful as this," he said.
A shopkeeper in the Centre of Ridderhof said that the shooter was released people are shot at random.
"It was a panic in the Mall, a lot of people," said the shopkeeper, maart Verbeek, Dutch broadcaster NOS.
"I see come of the attacker, walking, and I go to the store... and I see him go by with a large machine gun."
A resident told the BBC that the shooting was unusual, although the second in the area this month.
"It's funny that something like this has happened in this neighborhood." Usually nothing happens ever here. But this is the second shooting in two weeks, "said Thomas Aantjes."
Two people died in a shooting in the same district of the city on 2 April. Officials have made no link between the two incidents.
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