Speeding car targets royal parade killing five

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.

Speeding car targets royal parade killing five

The small black car headed at high speed toward the bus carrying Queen Beatrix and passed within a few yards of it before crashing into a stone monument.

People flew through the air after the car swerved across police railings, where the crowd was lined up five or six deep to see the immensely popular royal family pass on its way to the Het Loo palace on the Queen’s Day national holiday.

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