An unemployed recluse who attempted to slam his car into an open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix was acting alone and targeting the Dutch royal family, police said today.

THE man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed six people died of his injuries yesterday, leaving unresolved the mystery of why he tried to attack the Dutch royal family.

The driver who tried to ram the Dutch royal family’s coach and ended up killing six bystanders had recently been fired and was about to lose his home, it emerged today.

A SPEEDING car raced toward an open bus carrying the Dutch royal family during a holiday parade yesterday and ploughed into spectators, killing five people and injuring 13 others in an apparently deliberate act, authorities said.

A speeding car smashed into a crowd of royal watchers today near a open-top bus carrying the Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix today, killing two of them.