Six individuals have been killed when a lorry drove off a dike within the Netherlands and crashed right into a group barbecue, police stated.
Seven different persons are in hospital, one in a essential situation, after the accident in a village south of Rotterdam.
Three males and three girls have been killed, ranging in age from 28 to 75, police added.
Police spokeswoman Mirjam Boers stated the truck driver, a 46-year-old Spanish man, is suspected of inflicting the crash in Nieuw-Beijerland early on Saturday night.
She stated the driving force was not drunk.
The massive truck he was driving left a small rural highway and careered down the financial institution of the dike earlier than ploughing into the village gathering.
The precise explanation for the crash is underneath investigation.
Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima stated in a tweet that they have been shocked by the accident which had brought on “an unimaginable disappointment on this close-knit group. The affected households are in our ideas and we want the injured power on their strategy to nearly as good a restoration as attainable”.
Forensic investigators labored into the evening on Saturday across the truck the place it stopped on the backside of the dike. A crane and a tow truck later hauled it again onto the highway.
Images of the scene confirmed bunting hanging between timber and chairs scattered round trestle tables with plates nonetheless on them.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte additionally expressed his disappointment in a tweet, saying: “My ideas exit to the victims and subsequent of kin of this horrible drama. I want them a lot power.”
Native mayor Charlie Aptroot visited the scene on Saturday evening.
“My condolences exit to the victims, their households, eyewitnesses and first responders,” he stated in an announcement.
He added that he had spoken to lots of the individuals on the scene and expressed “appreciation for the best way through which persons are there for one another”.