Four people were killed and 13 others injured after a car ploughed into a parade in The Netherlands that included Queen Beatrix and the Dutch royal family.
Five people remain in serious condition, but no members of the royal family were hurt in what police have described as a deliberate attack by a 38-year old Dutchman on the Queen's Day holiday.
Television footage showed a small black Suzuki with a crumpled front driving at high speed after ploughing through a crowd of spectators in the town of Apeldoorn.
It missed an open-top bus carrying Queen Beatrox and the royal family by four or five metres, before finally crashing into a stone monument.
In the bus, Princess Maxima, wife of heir Willem-Alexander, looked on in horror after the car hurtled through the crowd in the centre of the city, about 90km east of Amsterdam.
‘What started as a beautiful day has ended in terrible drama, which has shocked us deeply,’ Queen Beatrix said in a response, which was broadcast on national television.
The driver of the car, who was injured, was detained.
‘So far we have no indication that there is a link to terror (activities),’ public prosecutor Ludo Goossens told a news conference.
The government cancelled the remaining official activities on the annual national holiday.
